tartamudear
Spanish, verb/taɾtamudeˈaɾ/
tartamudear is spelled T-A-R-T-A-M-U-D-E-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 94,980th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tartamudear is a Spanish verb meaning “to stutter, stammer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Trabarse con las palabras al hablar, normalmente producto de los nervios o de algún problema psicológico…”.
What does tartamudear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stutter, stammer
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trabarse con las palabras al hablar, normalmente producto de los nervios o de algún problema psicológico (inseguridad, etc).
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 tartamudear
- tartamudeo first-person present singular
- tartamudeé first-person preterite singular
- tartamudeado participle past
- tartamudeando gerund
- tartamudeada feminine participle past
- tartamudeados masculine participle past
- tartamudeadas feminine participle past
- tartamudeas indicative informal present
- tartamudeás indicative informal present
- tartamudea indicative present singular
- tartamudeamos first-person indicative plural
- tartamudeáis indicative plural present
- tartamudean indicative plural present
- tartamudeaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tartamudeabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tartamudeábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tartamudeabais imperfect indicative plural
- tartamudeaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tartamudear?
- /taɾtamudeˈaɾ/
- [t̪aɾ.t̪a.mu.ð̞eˈaɾ]
- [t̪aɾt̪amuð̞eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tartamudear in Spanish?
tartamudear appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).