tiritar
Spanish, verb/tiɾiˈtaɾ/
tiritar is spelled T-I-R-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 150,504th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tiritar is a Spanish verb meaning “to shiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moverse alternativamente en direcciones opuestas de manera rápida y generalmente involuntaria, con sacudidas…”.
What does tiritar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shiver
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moverse alternativamente en direcciones opuestas de manera rápida y generalmente involuntaria, con sacudidas breves y frecuentes. En los seres vivos, ocurre generalmente por frío, miedo o fiebre.
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 tiritar
- tirito first-person present singular
- tirité first-person preterite singular
- tiritado participle past
- tiritando gerund
- tiritada feminine participle past
- tiritados masculine participle past
- tiritadas feminine participle past
- tiritas indicative informal present
- tiritás indicative informal present
- tirita indicative present singular
- tiritamos first-person indicative plural
- tiritáis indicative plural present
- tiritan indicative plural present
- tiritaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tiritabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tiritábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tiritabais imperfect indicative plural
- tiritaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tiritar?
- /tiɾiˈtaɾ/
- [t̪i.ɾiˈt̪aɾ]
- [t̪iɾiˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tiritar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tiritar in Spanish?
tiritar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).