trocear
Spanish, verb/tɾoθeˈaɾ/
trocear is spelled T-R-O-C-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 129,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trocear is a Spanish verb meaning “to cut up, to shred” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Partir en trozos”.
What does trocear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut up, to shred
- 2
to detonate (an unexploded ordenance)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Partir en trozos. 2. Hacer detonar los restos de una mina abandonada para que quede inutilizada.
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 trocear
- troceo first-person present singular
- troceé first-person preterite singular
- troceado participle past
- troceando gerund
- troceada feminine participle past
- troceados masculine participle past
- troceadas feminine participle past
- troceas indicative informal present
- troceás indicative informal present
- trocea indicative present singular
- troceamos first-person indicative plural
- troceáis indicative plural present
- trocean indicative plural present
- troceaba first-person imperfect indicative
- troceabas imperfect indicative second-person
- troceábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- troceabais imperfect indicative plural
- troceaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trocear?
- /tɾoθeˈaɾ/
- [t̪ɾo.θeˈaɾ]
- /tɾoseˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trocear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trocear in Spanish?
trocear appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).