palpar
Spanish, verb/palˈpaɾ/
palpar is spelled P-A-L-P-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 57,592nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palpar is a Spanish verb meaning “to feel, to touch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tocar con las manos una cosa para percibirla o reconocerla por el sentido del tacto”.
What does palpar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feel, to touch
- 2
to feel
todo eso se palpaba en la sala
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tocar con las manos una cosa para percibirla o reconocerla por el sentido del tacto. 2. Usar el tacto para orientarse en la oscuridad. 3. Conocer tan claramente una cosa como si se tocara.
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 palpar
- palpo first-person present singular
- palpé first-person preterite singular
- palpado participle past
- palpando gerund
- palpada feminine participle past
- palpados masculine participle past
- palpadas feminine participle past
- palpas indicative informal present
- palpás indicative informal present
- palpa indicative present singular
- palpamos first-person indicative plural
- palpáis indicative plural present
- palpan indicative plural present
- palpaba first-person imperfect indicative
- palpabas imperfect indicative second-person
- palpábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- palpabais imperfect indicative plural
- palpaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palpar?
- /palˈpaɾ/
- [palˈpaɾ]
- Spain [palˈpaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to palpar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palpar in Spanish?
palpar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).