compás
Spanish, noun
compás is spelled C-O-M-P-Á-S (6 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,033rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compás is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pair of compasses (tool used to draw circles)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, compas is a different word: “plural of compa”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento formado por dos piezas articuladas, utilizado para trazar círculos o traspasar medidas”.
What does compás mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepair of compasses (tool used to draw circles)
- 2
masculinerhythm
- 3
masculinebeat
- 4
masculinebar
- 5
masculinetime, time signature
- 6
masculinebeat
noun
- 1
masculineplural of compa
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento formado por dos piezas articuladas, utilizado para trazar círculos o traspasar medidas. 2. Cada uno de los períodos de tiempo iguales en que se marca el ritmo de una frase musical. 3. Ritmo o cadencia de una pieza musical. 4. Por extensión, ritmo de otras actividades.
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 compás
- compases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to compás
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is compás in Spanish?
compás appears 3.3 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).