contagio
Spanish, noun
contagio is spelled C-O-N-T-A-G-I-O (8 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,033rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contagio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “infection, contagion (the spread or transmission of a disease)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of contagiar. With an accent, contagió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of contagiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de contagiar (transmitir un agente patógeno)”.
What does contagio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinfection, contagion (the spread or transmission of a disease)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of contagiar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of contagiar
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 contagiar (transmitir un agente patógeno). 2. Por extensión, transmisión involuntaria de hábitos, actitudes o emociones de una persona a otra, por imitación o influencia.
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 contagio
- contagios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to contagio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contagio in Spanish?
contagio 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).