garabatear
Spanish, verb/ɡaɾabateˈaɾ/
garabatear is spelled G-A-R-A-B-A-T-E-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 125,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garabatear is a Spanish verb meaning “to scribble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Escribir o dibujar garabatos”.
What does garabatear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scribble
- 2
colloquialto swear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Escribir o dibujar garabatos.
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 garabatear
- garabateo first-person present singular
- garabateé first-person preterite singular
- garabateado participle past
- garabateando gerund
- garabateada feminine participle past
- garabateados masculine participle past
- garabateadas feminine participle past
- garabateas indicative informal present
- garabateás indicative informal present
- garabatea indicative present singular
- garabateamos first-person indicative plural
- garabateáis indicative plural present
- garabatean indicative plural present
- garabateaba first-person imperfect indicative
- garabateabas imperfect indicative second-person
- garabateábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- garabateabais imperfect indicative plural
- garabateaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce garabatear?
- /ɡaɾabateˈaɾ/
- [ɡa.ɾa.β̞a.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [gaɾaβ̞at̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to garabatear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garabatear in Spanish?
garabatear appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).