ingerir
Spanish, verb/inxeˈɾiɾ/
ingerir is spelled I-N-G-E-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 30,789th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ingerir is a Spanish verb meaning “to ingest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer pasar por la boca o por el canal alimentario, hacia adentro del organismo, sustancias como alimentos…”.
What does ingerir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ingest
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer pasar por la boca o por el canal alimentario, hacia adentro del organismo, sustancias como alimentos, medicamentos, drogas o bebidas.
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 ingerir
- ingiero first-person present singular
- ingerí first-person preterite singular
- ingerido participle past
- e-ie-i alternation
- ingiriendo gerund
- ingerida feminine participle past
- ingeridos masculine participle past
- ingeridas feminine participle past
- ingieres indicative informal present
- ingerís indicative informal present
- ingiere indicative present singular
- ingerimos first-person indicative plural
- ingieren indicative plural present
- ingería first-person imperfect indicative
- ingerías imperfect indicative second-person
- ingeríamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ingeríais imperfect indicative plural
- ingerían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ingerir?
- /inxeˈɾiɾ/
- [ĩŋ.xeˈɾiɾ]
- [ĩŋxeˈɾiɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ingerir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ingerir in Spanish?
ingerir appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).