significar
Spanish, verb/siɡnifiˈkaɾ/
significar is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,098th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Significar is a Spanish verb meaning “to signify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ser una cosa, por naturaleza, imitación o convenio, representación, indicio o signo de otra cosa distinta”.
What does significar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to signify
- 2
to mean
Qué significa esa palabra?
- 3
to stand out
se significa por su inteligencia
- 4
to speak out, to assert (to voice one's opinion)
significarse en contra de la guerra
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ser una cosa, por naturaleza, imitación o convenio, representación, indicio o signo de otra cosa distinta. 2. Ser una palabra o frase expresión o signo de una idea o de un pensamiento, o de una cosa material. 3. Dar a entender o hacer saber; declarar o manifestar una cosa. 4. Representar una cosa a otra.
verb: 1. Representar, valer, tener importancia.
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 significar
- significo first-person present singular
- signifiqué first-person preterite singular
- significado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- significando gerund
- significada feminine participle past
- significados masculine participle past
- significadas feminine participle past
- significas indicative informal present
- significás indicative informal present
- significa indicative present singular
- significamos first-person indicative plural
- significáis indicative plural present
- significan indicative plural present
- significaba first-person imperfect indicative
- significabas imperfect indicative second-person
- significábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- significabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce significar?
- /siɡnifiˈkaɾ/
- [siɣ̞.ni.fiˈkaɾ]
- [siɣ̞nifiˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to significar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is significar in Spanish?
significar appears 8.5 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).