obnubilar
Spanish, verb/obnubiˈlaɾ/
obnubilar is spelled O-B-N-U-B-I-L-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish, the 277,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obnubilar is a Spanish verb meaning “to confuse; to cloud (one's judgement); to daze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Provocar incapacidad de pensar, ver o reaccionar claramente”.
What does obnubilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confuse; to cloud (one's judgement); to daze
- 2
to make cloudy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Provocar incapacidad de pensar, ver o reaccionar claramente.
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 obnubilar
- obnubilo first-person present singular
- obnubilé first-person preterite singular
- obnubilado participle past
- obnubilando gerund
- obnubilada feminine participle past
- obnubilados masculine participle past
- obnubiladas feminine participle past
- obnubilas indicative informal present
- obnubilás indicative informal present
- obnubila indicative present singular
- obnubilamos first-person indicative plural
- obnubiláis indicative plural present
- obnubilan indicative plural present
- obnubilaba first-person imperfect indicative
- obnubilabas imperfect indicative second-person
- obnubilábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- obnubilabais imperfect indicative plural
- obnubilaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obnubilar?
- /obnubiˈlaɾ/
- [oβ̞.nu.β̞iˈlaɾ]
- [oβ̞nuβ̞iˈlaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obnubilar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obnubilar in Spanish?
obnubilar appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).