cerco
Spanish, noun
cerco is spelled C-E-R-C-O (5 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,797th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cerco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “ring (made by dirt)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cercar. With an accent, cercó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cercar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de cercar”.
What does cerco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinering (made by dirt)
- 2
masculinefence
- 3
masculinesiege
- 4
masculinehalo
noun
- 1
masculinecercus
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cercar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cercar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de cercar. 2. Arte de pesca que cosiste en encerrar un banco de peces sin llegar al fondo.
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 cerco
- cercos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cerco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cerco in Spanish?
cerco appears 3.4 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).