ponchar
Spanish, verb/ponˈt͡ʃaɾ/
ponchar is spelled P-O-N-C-H-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish, the 163,697th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ponchar is a Spanish verb meaning “to punch in/punch out (at work)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Perforar algún objeto de hule, dejando que escape el aire o el gas con que estaba inflado”.
What does ponchar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to punch in/punch out (at work)
Recordaste ponchar? Si ya ponché.
- 2
to crimp (to fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened)
- 3
to strike out
- 4
Mexicocolloquialto puncture (something like a balloon, a ball, a tire, etc.) and make it burst or unusable
- 5
Mexicocolloquialto burst, to go flat (of a tire), to became deflated
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Perforar algún objeto de hule, dejando que escape el aire o el gas con que estaba inflado. 2. Dicho de un lanzador: eliminar a un bateador al haberle acumulado tres strikes. 3. Hacer o forjar un cigarro de mariguana. 4. Perforar la unión del sonido magnético para reducir el ruido cuando pasa la cinta por el cabezal de lectura.
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 ponchar
- poncho first-person present singular
- ponché first-person preterite singular
- ponchado participle past
- ponchando gerund
- ponchada feminine participle past
- ponchados masculine participle past
- ponchadas feminine participle past
- ponchas indicative informal present
- ponchás indicative informal present
- poncha indicative present singular
- ponchamos first-person indicative plural
- poncháis indicative plural present
- ponchan indicative plural present
- ponchaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ponchabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ponchábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ponchabais imperfect indicative plural
- ponchaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ponchar?
- /ponˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [põnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ponchar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ponchar in Spanish?
ponchar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).