intercambiar
Spanish, verb/inteɾkamˈbjaɾ/
intercambiar is spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-A-M-B-I-A-R (12 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 11,181st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intercambiar is a Spanish verb meaning “to interchange, to exchange” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Recibir y/o entregar algo a cambio de otra cosa, de modo recíproco o mutuo, entre una o más personas…”.
What does intercambiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to interchange, to exchange
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recibir y/o entregar algo a cambio de otra cosa, de modo recíproco o mutuo, entre una o más personas, instituciones, países, entidades, organismos, etc.
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 intercambiar
- intercambio first-person present singular
- intercambié first-person preterite singular
- intercambiado participle past
- intercambiando gerund
- intercambiada feminine participle past
- intercambiados masculine participle past
- intercambiadas feminine participle past
- intercambias indicative informal present
- intercambiás indicative informal present
- intercambia indicative present singular
- intercambiamos first-person indicative plural
- intercambiáis indicative plural present
- intercambian indicative plural present
- intercambiaba first-person imperfect indicative
- intercambiabas imperfect indicative second-person
- intercambiábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- intercambiabais imperfect indicative plural
- intercambiaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce intercambiar?
- /inteɾkamˈbjaɾ/
- [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.kãmˈbjaɾ]
- [ĩn̪t̪eɾkãmˈbjaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to intercambiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is intercambiar in Spanish?
intercambiar appears 5.5 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).