puentear
Spanish, verb/pwenteˈaɾ/
puentear is spelled P-U-E-N-T-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish, the 144,191st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puentear is a Spanish verb meaning “to bypass, bridge, hot-wire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Conectar dos terminales o dos pistas de un circuito eléctrico”.
What does puentear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bypass, bridge, hot-wire
- 2
to go over someone's head (to take up an issue with another person's boss or other superior rather than beginning or continuing to deal with the original person)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Conectar dos terminales o dos pistas de un circuito eléctrico. 2. Omitir la instancia que usualmente correspondería y apelar a que viene después dentro del órden jerárquico.
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 puentear
- puenteo first-person present singular
- puenteé first-person preterite singular
- puenteado participle past
- puenteando gerund
- puenteada feminine participle past
- puenteados masculine participle past
- puenteadas feminine participle past
- puenteas indicative informal present
- puenteás indicative informal present
- puentea indicative present singular
- puenteamos first-person indicative plural
- puenteáis indicative plural present
- puentean indicative plural present
- puenteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- puenteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- puenteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- puenteabais imperfect indicative plural
- puenteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce puentear?
- /pwenteˈaɾ/
- [pwẽn̪.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [pwẽn̪t̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is puentear in Spanish?
puentear appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).