sortear
Spanish, verb/soɾteˈaɾ/
sortear is spelled S-O-R-T-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 18,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sortear is a Spanish verb meaning “to raffle, to raffle off, to draw lots” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Someter a la suerte la resolución de algo, empleando medios fortuitos o casuales”.
What does sortear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raffle, to raffle off, to draw lots
- 2
to get around, to avoid, to come around (an obstacle or a danger), to circumvent
- 3
USto sort
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Someter a la suerte la resolución de algo, empleando medios fortuitos o casuales. 2. Evitar con maña o eludir un compromiso, conflicto, riesgo o dificultad.
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 sortear
- sorteo first-person present singular
- sorteé first-person preterite singular
- sorteado participle past
- sorteando gerund
- sorteada feminine participle past
- sorteados masculine participle past
- sorteadas feminine participle past
- sorteas indicative informal present
- sorteás indicative informal present
- sortea indicative present singular
- sorteamos first-person indicative plural
- sorteáis indicative plural present
- sortean indicative plural present
- sorteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sorteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sorteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sorteabais imperfect indicative plural
- sorteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sortear?
- /soɾteˈaɾ/
- [soɾ.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [soɾt̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sortear in Spanish?
sortear appears 2.8 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).