Skip to main content
PlainSpell

color

Spanish, noun/koˈloɾ/

color is spelled C-O-L-O-R (5 letters) and appears 115 times per million words in written Spanish, the 765th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Color is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “color / colour, hue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sensación que se produce al excitarse un fotorreceptor por acción de un rayo luminoso”.

What does color mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    color / colour, hue

  2. 2

    archaiccomplexion

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerouge (cosmetics)

  2. 2

    masculinepretext, motive, reason

  3. 3

    masculinecharacter; special quality

  4. 4

    masculineside, party, faction

  5. 5

    masculinerace, ethnicity

  6. 6

    masculineflush

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sensación que se produce al excitarse un fotorreceptor por acción de un rayo luminoso. 2. Matiz de opinión, fracción o tendencia de algún partido político. 3. Jugada en el póquer que consiste en tener cinco cartas (no consecutivas) del mismo palo, por ejemplo cinco tréboles. Es inmediatamente superior a la escalera e inmediatamente más débil que el full house. 4. colores que no pertenecen a los considerados metales: azur, gules, sable, sinoble y púrpura.

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 color

  • f same meaning canonical
  • colores plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce color?

  • /koˈloɾ/
  • [koˈloɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to color

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is color in Spanish?

color appears 115 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).

What to look up after color