animal
Spanish, noun/aniˈmal/
animal is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L (6 letters) and appears 47 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,851st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animal is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ser vivo, generalmente con capacidad de movimiento y con menor inteligencia que los humanos”.
What does animal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineanimal
noun
- 1
masculineanimal
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ser vivo, generalmente con capacidad de movimiento y con menor inteligencia que los humanos. 2. Seres vivos que pertenece a un grupo de eucariontes, pluricelulares y heterótrofos. 3. Ser irracional en oposición al hombre. 4. Animal cuadrúpedo doméstico, principalmente los vacunos.
adjective: 1. Dícese de aquello que pertenece o se relaciona con el reino animal. 2. Falto o escaso de inteligencia, racionalidad o delicadeza.
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 animal
- animales feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animal?
- /aniˈmal/
- [a.niˈmal]
- [aniˈmal]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to animal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animal in Spanish?
animal appears 47 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).