rodar
Spanish, verb/roˈdaɾ/
rodar is spelled R-O-D-A-R (5 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,111th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rodar is a Spanish verb meaning “to roll, rotate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moverse un cuerpo redondo o cilíndrico imitando el movimiento de una rueda”.
What does rodar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to roll, rotate
- 2
to film
- 3
to move over
- 4
to leave
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moverse un cuerpo redondo o cilíndrico imitando el movimiento de una rueda. 2. Desplazarse sobre un vehículo con ruedas. 3. Caer un cuerpo por una pendiente hacia abajo.
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 rodar
- ruedo first-person present singular
- rodé first-person preterite singular
- rodado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- rodando gerund
- rodada feminine participle past
- rodados masculine participle past
- rodadas feminine participle past
- ruedas indicative informal present
- rodás indicative informal present
- rueda indicative present singular
- rodamos first-person indicative plural
- rodáis indicative plural present
- ruedan indicative plural present
- rodaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rodabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rodábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rodabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rodar?
- /roˈdaɾ/
- [roˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rodar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rodar in Spanish?
rodar appears 4.9 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).