trastear
Spanish, verb/tɾasteˈaɾ/
trastear is spelled T-R-A-S-T-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 152,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trastear is a Spanish verb meaning “to move things around, to jumble up things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner o echar los trastes a la guitarra u otro instrumento semejante”.
What does trastear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to move things around, to jumble up things
- 2
to play up, play about, misbehave
- 3
to manage, cope well
- 4
to fiddle with, tinker
- 5
to toy with the cape
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner o echar los trastes a la guitarra u otro instrumento semejante. 2. Tocar³ un instrumento de trastes. 3. Dar un espada⁵ pases de muleta al toro. 4. Manejar con habilidad a una persona o un negocio.
verb: 1. Mover cosas de una parte a otra, desorganizar cosas. 2. Discurrir con viveza y travesura sobre algún asunto.
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 trastear
- trasteo first-person present singular
- trasteé first-person preterite singular
- trasteado participle past
- trasteando gerund
- trasteada feminine participle past
- trasteados masculine participle past
- trasteadas feminine participle past
- trasteas indicative informal present
- trasteás indicative informal present
- trastea indicative present singular
- trasteamos first-person indicative plural
- trasteáis indicative plural present
- trastean indicative plural present
- trasteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- trasteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- trasteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- trasteabais imperfect indicative plural
- trasteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trastear?
- /tɾasteˈaɾ/
- [t̪ɾas.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [t̪ɾast̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trastear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trastear in Spanish?
trastear 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).