bajío
Spanish, noun/baˈxio/
bajío is spelled B-A-J-Í-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 38,543rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bajío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “shoal, shallows, sandbank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En los mares, ríos y lagos navegables, elevación del fondo que impide flotar a las embarcaciones”.
What does bajío mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshoal, shallows, sandbank
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Bajo.
noun: 1. En los mares, ríos y lagos navegables, elevación del fondo que impide flotar a las embarcaciones. 2. Notable menoscabo o disminución en el caudal, la salud, las facultades intelectuales, etc.
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 bajío
- bajíos plural
- bajía feminine
- bajías feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bajío?
- /baˈxio/
- [baˈxi.o]
- [baˈxio]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bajío
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bajío in Spanish?
bajío appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).