sabotear
Spanish, verb/saboteˈaɾ/
sabotear is spelled S-A-B-O-T-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 28,265th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sabotear is a Spanish verb meaning “to sabotage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Entorpecer un proceso económico, productivo administrativo destruyendo o estropeando los medios necesarios…”.
What does sabotear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sabotage
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entorpecer un proceso económico, productivo administrativo destruyendo o estropeando los medios necesarios para el mismo. 2. Más generalmente, oponerse subrepticia y activamente a un proyecto.
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 sabotear
- saboteo first-person present singular
- saboteé first-person preterite singular
- saboteado participle past
- saboteando gerund
- saboteada feminine participle past
- saboteados masculine participle past
- saboteadas feminine participle past
- saboteas indicative informal present
- saboteás indicative informal present
- sabotea indicative present singular
- saboteamos first-person indicative plural
- saboteáis indicative plural present
- sabotean indicative plural present
- saboteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- saboteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- saboteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- saboteabais imperfect indicative plural
- saboteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sabotear?
- /saboteˈaɾ/
- [sa.β̞o.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [saβ̞ot̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sabotear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sabotear in Spanish?
sabotear appears 1.4 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).