arroyo
Spanish, noun
arroyo is spelled A-R-R-O-Y-O (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,155th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arroyo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “stream, brook, creek (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of arroyar. With an accent, arroyó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of arroyar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Curso de agua tan pequeño y poco caudaloso que no puede navegarse”.
What does arroyo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestream, brook, creek (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of arroyar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of arroyar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Curso de agua tan pequeño y poco caudaloso que no puede navegarse. 2. Cauce por el que discurre un arroyo₁. 3. Canal de desagüe a la vera de una calle. 4. Por extensión, situación de extrema pobreza, como de quien se ve obligado a refugiarse en un arroyo₃.
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 arroyo
- arroyos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to arroyo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arroyo in Spanish?
arroyo appears 12 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).