compaño
Spanish, noun
compaño is spelled C-O-M-P-A-Ñ-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written Spanish, the 321,281st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compaño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “companion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of compañar. With a tilde, compañó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of compañar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de compañero”.
What does compaño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletecompanion
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of compañar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of compañar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de compañero.
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 compaño
- compaños plural
- compaña feminine
- compañas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is compaño in Spanish?
compaño appears about once in every 87 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).