rasguear
Spanish, verb/rasɡeˈaɾ/
rasguear is spelled R-A-S-G-U-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Spanish, the 254,909th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rasguear is a Spanish verb meaning “to strum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tocar la guitarra u otro instrumento rozando varias cuerdas a la vez con las puntas de los dedos”.
What does rasguear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strum
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tocar la guitarra u otro instrumento rozando varias cuerdas a la vez con las puntas de los dedos.
verb: 1. Hacer rasgos al escribir.
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 rasguear
- rasgueo first-person present singular
- rasgueé first-person preterite singular
- rasgueado participle past
- rasgueando gerund
- rasgueada feminine participle past
- rasgueados masculine participle past
- rasgueadas feminine participle past
- rasgueas indicative informal present
- rasgueás indicative informal present
- rasguea indicative present singular
- rasgueamos first-person indicative plural
- rasgueáis indicative plural present
- rasguean indicative plural present
- rasgueaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rasgueabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rasgueábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rasgueabais imperfect indicative plural
- rasgueaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rasguear?
- /rasɡeˈaɾ/
- [raz.ɣ̞eˈaɾ]
- [rasɣ̞eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rasguear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rasguear in Spanish?
rasguear appears about once in every 52 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).