rayar
Spanish, verb/raˈʝaɾ/
rayar is spelled R-A-Y-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 39,622nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rayar is a Spanish verb meaning “to scratch, gouge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Trazar rayas o líneas en una superficie”.
What does rayar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scratch, gouge
- 2
to line, mark
- 3
to verge (on)
- 4
colloquialto drive crazy, to go crazy, to freak out (to annoy or irritate, cause someone to become insane)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trazar rayas o líneas en una superficie. 2. Detener a la cabalgadura repentinamente cuando está lanzada a toda carrera. 3. Desprestigiar, dar mala fama o reputación a algo o a alguien. 4. Reproducir un audio o un video muchas veces hasta el punto que llega a perder interés.
verb: 1. Limitar una cosa, física o conceptualmente, con otra. 2. Con las voces alba, día, luz, sol: amanecer, alborear. 3. Llegar a un extremo potencial. 4. Dicho de la persona que atiende en un negocio, especialmente del pulpero: anotar las deudas de sus clientes con rayas que equivalían a un real.
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 rayar
- rayo first-person present singular
- rayé first-person preterite singular
- rayado participle past
- rayando gerund
- rayada feminine participle past
- rayados masculine participle past
- rayadas feminine participle past
- rayas indicative informal present
- rayás indicative informal present
- raya indicative present singular
- rayamos first-person indicative plural
- rayáis indicative plural present
- rayan indicative plural present
- rayaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rayabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rayábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rayabais imperfect indicative plural
- rayaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rayar?
- /raˈʝaɾ/
- [raˈʝaɾ]
- [raˈʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rayar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rayar in Spanish?
rayar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).