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vaciar

Spanish, verb/baˈθjaɾ/

vaciar is spelled V-A-C-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vaciar is a Spanish verb meaning “to empty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Retirar el interior o contenido de algo”.

What does vaciar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to empty

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Retirar el interior o contenido de algo. 2. Despejar, desalojar. 3. Sacar, verter o arrojar el contenido de una vasija u otra cosa. 4. Formar un objeto echando en un molde hueco metal derretido u otra materia blanda.

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 vaciar

  • vacío first-person present singular
  • vacié first-person preterite singular
  • vaciado participle past
  • i-í alternation
  • vaciando gerund
  • vaciada feminine participle past
  • vaciados masculine participle past
  • vaciadas feminine participle past
  • vacías indicative informal present
  • vaciás indicative informal present
  • vacía indicative present singular
  • vaciamos first-person indicative plural
  • vaciáis indicative plural present
  • vacían indicative plural present
  • vaciaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • vaciabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • vaciábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • vaciabais imperfect indicative plural

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

How do you pronounce vaciar?

  • /baˈθjaɾ/
  • [baˈθjaɾ]
  • /baˈsjaɾ/

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

English words that translate to vaciar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is vaciar in Spanish?

vaciar appears 2.0 times per 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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