piratear
Spanish, verb/piɾateˈaɾ/
piratear is spelled P-I-R-A-T-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 45,181st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piratear is a Spanish verb meaning “to pirate, hijack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apresar o robar embarcaciones, más comúnmente cuando navegan”.
What does piratear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pirate, hijack
- 2
to pirate (to make and/or sell illegal copies)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apresar o robar embarcaciones, más comúnmente cuando navegan. 2. Apropiarse de contenido protegido por derechos de autor de forma ilegal.
verb: 1. Dar vuelta un mal resultado, sobre todo cuando se daba por perdido el partido y se recurre a engaños o trucos sucios.
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 piratear
- pirateo first-person present singular
- pirateé first-person preterite singular
- pirateado participle past
- pirateando gerund
- pirateada feminine participle past
- pirateados masculine participle past
- pirateadas feminine participle past
- pirateas indicative informal present
- pirateás indicative informal present
- piratea indicative present singular
- pirateamos first-person indicative plural
- pirateáis indicative plural present
- piratean indicative plural present
- pirateaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pirateabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pirateábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pirateabais imperfect indicative plural
- pirateaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piratear?
- /piɾateˈaɾ/
- [pi.ɾa.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [piɾat̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piratear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piratear in Spanish?
piratear 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).