resquebrajar
Spanish, verb/reskebɾaˈxaɾ/
resquebrajar is spelled R-E-S-Q-U-E-B-R-A-J-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish, the 189,865th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resquebrajar is a Spanish verb meaning “to crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer o causar grietas, hender la superficie de un cuerpo sólido sin llegar a romperlo”.
What does resquebrajar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crack
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer o causar grietas, hender la superficie de un cuerpo sólido sin llegar a romperlo.
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 resquebrajar
- resquebrajo first-person present singular
- resquebrajé first-person preterite singular
- resquebrajado participle past
- resquebrajando gerund
- resquebrajada feminine participle past
- resquebrajados masculine participle past
- resquebrajadas feminine participle past
- resquebrajas indicative informal present
- resquebrajás indicative informal present
- resquebraja indicative present singular
- resquebrajamos first-person indicative plural
- resquebrajáis indicative plural present
- resquebrajan indicative plural present
- resquebrajaba first-person imperfect indicative
- resquebrajabas imperfect indicative second-person
- resquebrajábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- resquebrajabais imperfect indicative plural
- resquebrajaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resquebrajar?
- /reskebɾaˈxaɾ/
- [res.ke.β̞ɾaˈxaɾ]
- [reskeβ̞ɾaˈxaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is resquebrajar in Spanish?
resquebrajar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).