timar
Spanish, verb/tiˈmaɾ/
timar is spelled T-I-M-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 87,581st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Timar is a Spanish verb meaning “to hustle, to con, to hoodwink, to swindle, to scam, to grift, to trick, to diddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sustraer cosas ajenas valiéndose de mentiras”.
What does timar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Spainto hustle, to con, to hoodwink, to swindle, to scam, to grift, to trick, to diddle
- 2
Spainto cheat, to rip off, to chisel, to rook, to goldbrick
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sustraer cosas ajenas valiéndose de mentiras. 2. Engañar con falsas promesas. 3. Obtener dinero de manera fraudulenta vaiéndose de artimañas o ardides.
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 timar
- timo first-person present singular
- timé first-person preterite singular
- timado participle past
- timando gerund
- timada feminine participle past
- timados masculine participle past
- timadas feminine participle past
- timas indicative informal present
- timás indicative informal present
- tima indicative present singular
- timamos first-person indicative plural
- timáis indicative plural present
- timan indicative plural present
- timaba first-person imperfect indicative
- timabas imperfect indicative second-person
- timábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- timabais imperfect indicative plural
- timaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce timar?
- /tiˈmaɾ/
- [t̪iˈmaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to timar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is timar in Spanish?
timar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).