pestañear
Spanish, verb/pestaɲeˈaɾ/
pestañear is spelled P-E-S-T-A-Ñ-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 47,595th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pestañear is a Spanish verb meaning “to blink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cerrar y abrir los ojos rápidamente”.
What does pestañear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blink
- 2
to bat an eyelid
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cerrar y abrir los ojos rápidamente. 2. Echar una siesta breve. 3. Distraerse.
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 pestañear
- pestañeo first-person present singular
- pestañeé first-person preterite singular
- pestañeado participle past
- pestañeando gerund
- pestañeada feminine participle past
- pestañeados masculine participle past
- pestañeadas feminine participle past
- pestañeas indicative informal present
- pestañeás indicative informal present
- pestañea indicative present singular
- pestañeamos first-person indicative plural
- pestañeáis indicative plural present
- pestañean indicative plural present
- pestañeaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pestañeabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pestañeábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pestañeabais imperfect indicative plural
- pestañeaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pestañear?
- /pestaɲeˈaɾ/
- [pes.t̪a.ɲeˈaɾ]
- [pest̪aɲeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pestañear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pestañear in Spanish?
pestañear 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).