reducir
Spanish, verb/reduˈθiɾ/
reducir is spelled R-E-D-U-C-I-R (7 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reducir is a Spanish verb meaning “to reduce, to lower, to cut, to scale back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Volver más pequeño,”.
What does reducir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reduce, to lower, to cut, to scale back
- 2
to narrow, to narrow down (e.g. suspects, a search, a gap, choices)
- 3
to whittle
- 4
to curtail (restrict)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Volver más pequeño,. 2. Vencer y someter al adversario, enemigo. 3. Transformar el aspecto físico de una sustancia o cosa mediante algún procedimiento mecánico o químico. 4. Cambiar un billete de dinero por varios billetes o monedas con el mismo valor total.
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 reducir
- reduzco first-person present singular
- reduje first-person preterite singular
- reducido participle past
- c-zc alternation
- reduciendo gerund
- reducida feminine participle past
- reducidos masculine participle past
- reducidas feminine participle past
- reduces indicative informal present
- reducís indicative informal present
- reduce indicative present singular
- reducimos first-person indicative plural
- reducen indicative plural present
- reducía first-person imperfect indicative
- reducías imperfect indicative second-person
- reducíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- reducíais imperfect indicative plural
- reducían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce reducir?
- /reduˈθiɾ/
- [re.ð̞uˈθiɾ]
- /reduˈsiɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to reducir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is reducir in Spanish?
reducir appears 39 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).