sobreescribir
Spanish, verb/sobɾeeskɾiˈbiɾ/
sobreescribir is a Spanish verb meaning “to overwrite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sobreescribir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overwrite
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sobreescribir
- sobreescribo first-person present singular
- sobreescribí first-person preterite singular
- sobreescrito participle past
- sobreescripto Argentina Uruguay participle
- sobreescribiendo gerund
- sobreescrita feminine participle past
- sobreescripta Argentina Uruguay feminine
- sobreescritos masculine participle past
- sobreescriptos Argentina Uruguay masculine
- sobreescritas feminine participle past
- sobreescriptas Argentina Uruguay feminine
- sobreescribes indicative informal present
- sobreescribís indicative informal present
- sobreescribe indicative present singular
- sobreescribimos first-person indicative plural
- sobreescriben indicative plural present
- sobreescribía first-person imperfect indicative
- sobreescribías imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobreescribir?
- /sobɾeeskɾiˈbiɾ/
- [so.β̞ɾe.es.kɾiˈβ̞iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sobreescribir in Spanish?
sobreescribir appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish.
sobreescribir0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Spanishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).