tanquear
Spanish, verb[t̪ãŋkeˈaɾ]
tanquear is spelled T-A-N-Q-U-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written Spanish, the 304,756th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tanquear is a Spanish verb meaning “to tank (to protect a weak troop with a strong troop, a tank)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proteger la pelota o una zona específica pechando con el cuerpo”.
What does tanquear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tank (to protect a weak troop with a strong troop, a tank)
- 2
to tank (to attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently)
- 3
Latin-Americato put fuel into a tank
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Proteger la pelota o una zona específica pechando con el cuerpo.
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 tanquear
- tanqueo first-person present singular
- tanqueé first-person preterite singular
- tanqueado participle past
- tanqueando gerund
- tanqueada feminine participle past
- tanqueados masculine participle past
- tanqueadas feminine participle past
- tanqueas indicative informal present
- tanqueás indicative informal present
- tanquea indicative present singular
- tanqueamos first-person indicative plural
- tanqueáis indicative plural present
- tanquean indicative plural present
- tanqueaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tanqueabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tanqueábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tanqueabais imperfect indicative plural
- tanqueaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tanquear?
- [t̪ãŋkeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tanquear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tanquear in Spanish?
tanquear appears about once in every 78 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).