apodo
Spanish, noun
apodo is spelled A-P-O-D-O (5 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,279th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apodo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “nickname, moniker, byname, alias” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of apodar. With an accent, apodó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of apodar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apelativo o sobrenombre que se le da popularmente a una persona, a fin de reconocerla en su ambiente local y…”.
What does apodo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenickname, moniker, byname, alias
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of apodar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of apodar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que no tiene patas. 2. Por extensión, dicho de un pez, que no tiene aletas ventrales.
noun: 1. Apelativo o sobrenombre que se le da popularmente a una persona, a fin de reconocerla en su ambiente local y que generalmente deriva de una cualidad (atributo o defecto) tanto física como psíquica, o de la herencia de un antepasado.
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 apodo
- apodos plural
- ápodos plural
- ápoda feminine
- ápodas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to apodo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apodo in Spanish?
apodo appears 6.2 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).