tacar
Spanish, verb/taˈkaɾ/
tacar is spelled T-A-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Spanish, the 260,274th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tacar is a Spanish verb meaning “To hit the balls, in a game of billiards, with a cue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Marcar o señalar con una mancha o con algún otro daño”.
What does tacar mean in English?
verb
- 1
To hit the balls, in a game of billiards, with a cue
- 2
To put a bunch of people or things in one place.
- 3
archaicTo point out something, in doing so, causing a stain, a hole, some damage.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marcar o señalar con una mancha o con algún otro daño.
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 tacar
- taco first-person present singular
- taqué first-person preterite singular
- tacado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- tacando gerund
- tacada feminine participle past
- tacados masculine participle past
- tacadas feminine participle past
- tacas indicative informal present
- tacás indicative informal present
- taca indicative present singular
- tacamos first-person indicative plural
- tacáis indicative plural present
- tacan indicative plural present
- tacaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tacabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tacábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tacabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tacar?
- /taˈkaɾ/
- [t̪aˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tacar in Spanish?
tacar appears about once in every 55 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).