caos
Spanish, noun/ˈkaos/
caos is spelled C-A-O-S (4 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,065th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caos is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “chaos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Estado general de confusión y desorden”.
What does caos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechaos
- 2
masculinemayhem, havoc, turmoil, pandemonium, bedlam
- 3
masculinemess, shambles, disarray
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Estado general de confusión y desorden. 2. En especial, indeterminación e indistinción general que algunas cosmologías postulan como estado inicial del universo. 3. Estado o comportamiento aparentemente aleatorio que está gobernado en realidad por principios muy complejos y sensibles a las condiciones iniciales, pero rigurosamente deterministas.
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.
How do you pronounce caos?
- /ˈkaos/
- [ˈka.os]
- [ˈkaos]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caos in Spanish?
caos appears 19 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).