vacunar
Spanish, verb/bakuˈnaɾ/
vacunar is spelled V-A-C-U-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,911th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vacunar is a Spanish verb meaning “to vaccinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Inocular con el virus CPXV, causante de la viruela bovina, para inmunizar contra la viruela”.
What does vacunar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vaccinate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Inocular con el virus CPXV, causante de la viruela bovina, para inmunizar contra la viruela. 2. Por extensión, inocular con un antígeno cualquiera para desarrollar inmunidad a un agente patógeno. 3. Por analogía, someter a alguno a una experiencia penosa o ardua para prepararlo ante dificultades futuras. 4. Apoderarse del dinero o bienes de una persona mediante engaño.
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 vacunar
- vacuno first-person present singular
- vacuné first-person preterite singular
- vacunado participle past
- vacunando gerund
- vacunada feminine participle past
- vacunados masculine participle past
- vacunadas feminine participle past
- vacunas indicative informal present
- vacunás indicative informal present
- vacuna indicative present singular
- vacunamos first-person indicative plural
- vacunáis indicative plural present
- vacunan indicative plural present
- vacunaba first-person imperfect indicative
- vacunabas imperfect indicative second-person
- vacunábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- vacunabais imperfect indicative plural
- vacunaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vacunar?
- /bakuˈnaɾ/
- [ba.kuˈnaɾ]
- [bakuˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vacunar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vacunar in Spanish?
vacunar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).