malversar
Spanish, verb/malbeɾˈsaɾ/
malversar is spelled M-A-L-V-E-R-S-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 100,441st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malversar is a Spanish verb meaning “to embezzle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Adueñarse de patrimonios públicos y gastarlos indebidamente”.
What does malversar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embezzle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Adueñarse de patrimonios públicos y gastarlos indebidamente.
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 malversar
- malverso first-person present singular
- malversé first-person preterite singular
- malversado participle past
- malversando gerund
- malversada feminine participle past
- malversados masculine participle past
- malversadas feminine participle past
- malversas indicative informal present
- malversás indicative informal present
- malversa indicative present singular
- malversamos first-person indicative plural
- malversáis indicative plural present
- malversan indicative plural present
- malversaba first-person imperfect indicative
- malversabas imperfect indicative second-person
- malversábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- malversabais imperfect indicative plural
- malversaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malversar?
- /malbeɾˈsaɾ/
- [mal.β̞eɾˈsaɾ]
- [malβ̞eɾˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malversar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malversar in Spanish?
malversar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).