funar
Spanish, verb/fuˈnaɾ/
funar is spelled F-U-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 117,287th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Funar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cancel, publicly shame or denounce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Efectuar un acto público de agravio y denuncia (una funa), contra una persona o entidad que ha cometido una…”.
What does funar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cancel, publicly shame or denounce
Near-synonyms: cancelar, (Argentina, Uruguay) escrachar
- 2
to screw over, ruin
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Efectuar un acto público de agravio y denuncia (una funa), contra una persona o entidad que ha cometido una mala acción o un crimen, usualmente frente a su domicilio o sede. Ocasionalmente se efectúa en el lugar en el que se cometió un crimen. 2. Por extensión, escrachar a alguien.
verb: 1. Revolver pendencias.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of funar
- funo first-person present singular
- funé first-person preterite singular
- funado participle past
- funando gerund
- funada feminine participle past
- funados masculine participle past
- funadas feminine participle past
- funas indicative informal present
- funás indicative informal present
- funa indicative present singular
- funamos first-person indicative plural
- funáis indicative plural present
- funan indicative plural present
- funaba first-person imperfect indicative
- funabas imperfect indicative second-person
- funábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- funabais imperfect indicative plural
- funaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce funar?
- /fuˈnaɾ/
- [fuˈnaɾ]
- [fuˈɲaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to funar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is funar in Spanish?
funar appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).