tensionar
Spanish, verb/tensjoˈnaɾ/
tensionar is spelled T-E-N-S-I-O-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish, the 208,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tensionar is a Spanish verb meaning “to tense (to make or become tense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tensar”.
What does tensionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tense (to make or become tense)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tensar.
verb: 1. Entrar una cosa en tensión con otra.
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 tensionar
- tensiono first-person present singular
- tensioné first-person preterite singular
- tensionado participle past
- tensionando gerund
- tensionada feminine participle past
- tensionados masculine participle past
- tensionadas feminine participle past
- tensionas indicative informal present
- tensionás indicative informal present
- tensiona indicative present singular
- tensionamos first-person indicative plural
- tensionáis indicative plural present
- tensionan indicative plural present
- tensionaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tensionabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tensionábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tensionabais imperfect indicative plural
- tensionaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tensionar?
- /tensjoˈnaɾ/
- [t̪ẽn.sjoˈnaɾ]
- [t̪ẽnsjoˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tensionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tensionar in Spanish?
tensionar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).