recapturar
Spanish, verb/rekabtuˈɾaɾ/
recapturar is spelled R-E-C-A-P-T-U-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 132,280th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recapturar is a Spanish verb meaning “to recapture, recatch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Capturar inmediatamente en la siguiente jugada una pieza enemiga que acaba de capturar una pieza propia.…”.
What does recapturar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recapture, recatch
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Capturar inmediatamente en la siguiente jugada una pieza enemiga que acaba de capturar una pieza propia. Aplica sobre todo cuando se habla de piezas de igual valor.
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 recapturar
- recapturo first-person present singular
- recapturé first-person preterite singular
- recapturado participle past
- recapturando gerund
- recapturada feminine participle past
- recapturados masculine participle past
- recapturadas feminine participle past
- recapturas indicative informal present
- recapturás indicative informal present
- recaptura indicative present singular
- recapturamos first-person indicative plural
- recapturáis indicative plural present
- recapturan indicative plural present
- recapturaba first-person imperfect indicative
- recapturabas imperfect indicative second-person
- recapturábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- recapturabais imperfect indicative plural
- recapturaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recapturar?
- /rekabtuˈɾaɾ/
- [re.kaβ̞.t̪uˈɾaɾ]
- [rekapt̪uˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recapturar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recapturar in Spanish?
recapturar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).