recortar
Spanish, verb/rekoɾˈtaɾ/
recortar is spelled R-E-C-O-R-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,033rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recortar is a Spanish verb meaning “to crop, to trim (remove outer parts of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cortar una porción de algo para algún propósito”.
What does recortar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crop, to trim (remove outer parts of)
- 2
to reduce, to cut, to cut back on
- 3
to cut back
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cortar una porción de algo para algún propósito. 2. Cortar el papel, la tela, etc., para obtener una figura o forma deseadas. 3. Hacer menor el tamaño, la fuerza o la cantidad de algo, sea material o inmaterial. 4. Destacar el perfil de una figura.
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 recortar
- recorto first-person present singular
- recorté first-person preterite singular
- recortado participle past
- recortando gerund
- recortada feminine participle past
- recortados masculine participle past
- recortadas feminine participle past
- recortas indicative informal present
- recortás indicative informal present
- recorta indicative present singular
- recortamos first-person indicative plural
- recortáis indicative plural present
- recortan indicative plural present
- recortaba first-person imperfect indicative
- recortabas imperfect indicative second-person
- recortábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- recortabais imperfect indicative plural
- recortaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recortar?
- /rekoɾˈtaɾ/
- [re.koɾˈt̪aɾ]
- [rekoɾˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recortar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recortar in Spanish?
recortar appears 3.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).