tronchar
Spanish, verb/tɾonˈt͡ʃaɾ/
tronchar is spelled T-R-O-N-C-H-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written Spanish, the 311,210th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tronchar is a Spanish verb meaning “to snap off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Partir o romper un vegetal desde su tronco, tallo o ramas”.
What does tronchar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to snap off
tronchar una rama
- 2
to crack, to split
- 3
to laugh out loud, to crack up (usually used in the expression troncharse de risa)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Partir o romper un vegetal desde su tronco, tallo o ramas. 2. Partir o romper con violencia cualquier cosa de figura parecida a la de un tronco o tallo.
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 tronchar
- troncho first-person present singular
- tronché first-person preterite singular
- tronchado participle past
- tronchando gerund
- tronchada feminine participle past
- tronchados masculine participle past
- tronchadas feminine participle past
- tronchas indicative informal present
- tronchás indicative informal present
- troncha indicative present singular
- tronchamos first-person indicative plural
- troncháis indicative plural present
- tronchan indicative plural present
- tronchaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tronchabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tronchábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tronchabais imperfect indicative plural
- tronchaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tronchar?
- /tɾonˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [t̪ɾõnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tronchar in Spanish?
tronchar appears about once in every 81 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).