adobo
Spanish, noun
adobo is spelled A-D-O-B-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 63,642nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adobo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a delicacy of marinated meat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of adobar. With an accent, adobó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of adobar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de adobar”.
What does adobo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea delicacy of marinated meat
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of adobar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of adobar
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 adobar. 2. Solución líquida de condimentos en una base acuosa (agua y vinagre) en el cual se remojan o marinan alimentos para su posterior preparación. 3. Mezcla de sal con especias y condimentos diversos usada para sazonar o condimentar alimentos. 4. Mezcla usada para curtir las pieles o lustrar telas.
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 adobo
- adobos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to adobo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adobo in Spanish?
adobo appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).