sellar
Spanish, verb/seˈʝaɾ/
sellar is spelled S-E-L-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 23,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sellar is a Spanish verb meaning “to stamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cocinar un alimento, generalmente una pieza de carne, a fuego muy fuerte durante pocos minutos, de modo que…”.
What does sellar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stamp
- 2
to seal (place a seal on a document)
- 3
to seal (close with a seal or hermetically)
- 4
to terminate, finish, end
- 5
to seal (hotly fry or cook a piece of meat for a short time)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cocinar un alimento, generalmente una pieza de carne, a fuego muy fuerte durante pocos minutos, de modo que su parte exterior se cueza rápidamente, con el fin de que no pierda sus líquidos, aun cuando su interior quede crudo y deba completarse la cocción, habitualmente en el horno.
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 sellar
- sello first-person present singular
- sellé first-person preterite singular
- sellado participle past
- sellando gerund
- sellada feminine participle past
- sellados masculine participle past
- selladas feminine participle past
- sellas indicative informal present
- sellás indicative informal present
- sella indicative present singular
- sellamos first-person indicative plural
- selláis indicative plural present
- sellan indicative plural present
- sellaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sellabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sellábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sellabais imperfect indicative plural
- sellaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sellar?
- /seˈʝaɾ/
- [seˈʝaɾ]
- [seˈʎaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sellar in Spanish?
sellar appears 1.9 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).