refutar
Spanish, verb/refuˈtaɾ/
refutar is spelled R-E-F-U-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 25,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refutar is a Spanish verb meaning “to refute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Contradecir o impugnar afirmaciones de alguien con razones y argumentos”.
What does refutar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refute
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Contradecir o impugnar afirmaciones de alguien con razones y argumentos.
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 refutar
- refuto first-person present singular
- refuté first-person preterite singular
- refutado participle past
- refutando gerund
- refutada feminine participle past
- refutados masculine participle past
- refutadas feminine participle past
- refutas indicative informal present
- refutás indicative informal present
- refuta indicative present singular
- refutamos first-person indicative plural
- refutáis indicative plural present
- refutan indicative plural present
- refutaba first-person imperfect indicative
- refutabas imperfect indicative second-person
- refutábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- refutabais imperfect indicative plural
- refutaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refutar?
- /refuˈtaɾ/
- [re.fuˈt̪aɾ]
- [refuˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to refutar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refutar in Spanish?
refutar appears 1.7 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).