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tirotear

Spanish, verb/tiɾoteˈaɾ/

tirotear is spelled T-I-R-O-T-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 147,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tirotear is a Spanish verb meaning “to shoot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tirotear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to shoot

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of tirotear

  • tiroteo first-person present singular
  • tiroteé first-person preterite singular
  • tiroteado participle past
  • tiroteando gerund
  • tiroteada feminine participle past
  • tiroteados masculine participle past
  • tiroteadas feminine participle past
  • tiroteas indicative informal present
  • tiroteás indicative informal present
  • tirotea indicative present singular
  • tiroteamos first-person indicative plural
  • tiroteáis indicative plural present
  • tirotean indicative plural present
  • tiroteaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • tiroteabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • tiroteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • tiroteabais imperfect indicative plural
  • tiroteaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tirotear?

  • /tiɾoteˈaɾ/
  • [t̪i.ɾo.t̪eˈaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is tirotear in Spanish?

tirotear appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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