tunear
Spanish, verb/tuneˈaɾ/
tunear is spelled T-U-N-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 128,005th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tunear is a Spanish verb meaning “to be crooked or deceitful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Modificar la mecánica o chasis de un vehículo por razones de rendimiento o estética, apartándolo del estándar”.
What does tunear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be crooked or deceitful
verb
- 1
to customize, pimp up (to make (someone or something, especially a car) more extravagantly decorated, as with flashy accessories, etc)
- 2
to tune (adjust)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Modificar la mecánica o chasis de un vehículo por razones de rendimiento o estética, apartándolo del estándar. 2. Por extensión, adaptar cualquier dispositivo a los gustos personales.
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 tunear
- tuneo first-person present singular
- tuneé first-person preterite singular
- tuneado participle past
- tuneando gerund
- tuneada feminine participle past
- tuneados masculine participle past
- tuneadas feminine participle past
- tuneas indicative informal present
- tuneás indicative informal present
- tunea indicative present singular
- tuneamos first-person indicative plural
- tuneáis indicative plural present
- tunean indicative plural present
- tuneaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tuneabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tuneábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tuneabais imperfect indicative plural
- tuneaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tunear?
- /tuneˈaɾ/
- [t̪u.neˈaɾ]
- [t̪uneˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tunear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tunear in Spanish?
tunear 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).