tachar
Spanish, verb/taˈt͡ʃaɾ/
tachar is spelled T-A-C-H-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 40,167th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tachar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cross out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cruzar con una línea lo escrito, o rayarlo, para que no se pueda leer, o para que se interprete como…”.
What does tachar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cross out
- 2
to omit, leave out
- 3
to qualify, to label, to brand (to ascribe a negative quality to)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cruzar con una línea lo escrito, o rayarlo, para que no se pueda leer, o para que se interprete como anulado. :*Sinónimo: tarjar. 2. Calificar a una persona con una cualidad negativa. 3. Alegar contra un testigo una incapacidad legal o un motivo que no lo hacen creíble.
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 tachar
- tacho first-person present singular
- taché first-person preterite singular
- tachado participle past
- tachando gerund
- tachada feminine participle past
- tachados masculine participle past
- tachadas feminine participle past
- tachas indicative informal present
- tachás indicative informal present
- tacha indicative present singular
- tachamos first-person indicative plural
- tacháis indicative plural present
- tachan indicative plural present
- tachaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tachabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tachábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tachabais imperfect indicative plural
- tachaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tachar?
- /taˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [t̪aˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tachar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tachar in Spanish?
tachar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).