acecho
Spanish, noun
acecho is spelled A-C-E-C-H-O (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 29,063rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acecho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “the act of stalking or spying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of acechar. With an accent, acechó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of acechar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de acechar”.
What does acecho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe act of stalking or spying
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of acechar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of acechar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de acechar.
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 acecho
- acechos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to acecho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acecho in Spanish?
acecho appears 1.3 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).