piquetear
Spanish, verb/piketeˈaɾ/
piquetear is spelled P-I-Q-U-E-T-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written Spanish, the 331,538th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piquetear is a Spanish verb meaning “to picket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Iniciar un piquete (protesta)”.
What does piquetear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Latin-Americato picket
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Iniciar un piquete (protesta). 2. Participar de un piquete (comida). 3. Ostentar.
verb: 1. Agujerar una tela.
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 piquetear
- piqueteo first-person present singular
- piqueteé first-person preterite singular
- piqueteado participle past
- piqueteando gerund
- piqueteada feminine participle past
- piqueteados masculine participle past
- piqueteadas feminine participle past
- piqueteas indicative informal present
- piqueteás indicative informal present
- piquetea indicative present singular
- piqueteamos first-person indicative plural
- piqueteáis indicative plural present
- piquetean indicative plural present
- piqueteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- piqueteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- piqueteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- piqueteabais imperfect indicative plural
- piqueteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piquetear?
- /piketeˈaɾ/
- [pi.ke.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [piket̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piquetear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piquetear in Spanish?
piquetear appears about once in every 93 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).