apego
Spanish, noun
apego is spelled A-P-E-G-O (5 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,054th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apego is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “attachment, inclination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of apegar. With an accent, apegó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of apegar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Actitud de afecto, afición o inclinación hacia algo o alguien”.
What does apego mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineattachment, inclination
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of apegar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of apegar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Actitud de afecto, afición o inclinación hacia algo o alguien.
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 apego
- apegos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to apego
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apego in Spanish?
apego appears 3.0 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).