platear
Spanish, verb/plateˈaɾ/
platear is a Spanish verb meaning “to silver-plate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does platear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to silver-plate
- 2
to turn silver
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of platear
- plateo first-person present singular
- plateé first-person preterite singular
- plateado participle past
- plateando gerund
- plateada feminine participle past
- plateados masculine participle past
- plateadas feminine participle past
- plateas indicative informal present
- plateás indicative informal present
- platea indicative present singular
- plateamos first-person indicative plural
- plateáis indicative plural present
- platean indicative plural present
- plateaba first-person imperfect indicative
- plateabas imperfect indicative second-person
- plateábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- plateabais imperfect indicative plural
- plateaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce platear?
- /plateˈaɾ/
- [pla.t̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is platear in Spanish?
platear appears about once in every 81 million words in written Spanish.
platear0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Spanishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).