apuro
Spanish, noun
apuro is spelled A-P-U-R-O (5 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,026th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apuro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “difficulty, predicament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of apurar. With an accent, apuró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of apurar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Aprieto, escasez grande”.
What does apuro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedifficulty, predicament
Estuve en un apuro financiero.
- 2
masculineshortage
- 3
masculineurgency, rush, hurry
No hay apuro.
- 4
masculineembarrassment
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of apurar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of apurar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aprieto, escasez grande. 2. Aflicción, estrechez, conflicto. 3. Prisa.
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 apuro
- apuros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to apuro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apuro in Spanish?
apuro appears 3.6 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).