sondar
Spanish, verb/sonˈdaɾ/
sondar is spelled S-O-N-D-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written Spanish, the 328,186th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sondar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sound (to probe the depth of water with a weighted rope or similar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de sondear”.
What does sondar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sound (to probe the depth of water with a weighted rope or similar)
- 2
to catheterize
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de sondear.
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 sondar
- sondo first-person present singular
- sondé first-person preterite singular
- sondado participle past
- sondando gerund
- sondada feminine participle past
- sondados masculine participle past
- sondadas feminine participle past
- sondas indicative informal present
- sondás indicative informal present
- sonda indicative present singular
- sondamos first-person indicative plural
- sondáis indicative plural present
- sondan indicative plural present
- sondaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sondabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sondábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sondabais imperfect indicative plural
- sondaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sondar?
- /sonˈdaɾ/
- [sõn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sondar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sondar in Spanish?
sondar appears about once in every 91 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).