corchete
Spanish, noun/koɾˈt͡ʃete/
corchete is spelled C-O-R-C-H-E-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 100,441st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corchete is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “square bracket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Grapa (broche metálico)”.
What does corchete mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesquare bracket
- 2
masculinehook and eye
- 3
masculinestaple
- 4
colloquialmasculinecop; copper (police)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grapa (broche metálico). 2. En particular, el macho del corchete o grapa. 3. Pieza de madera, con unos dientes de hierro, con la que los carpinteros sujetan el madero que han de labrar. 4. Signo ortográfico doble, con sintaxis de apertura y de cierre ([ y ]). Se usa de forma similar al paréntesis, pero para introducir fragmentos a interpretación del autor durante la reconstrucción de un texto ajeno, para encerrar las transcripciones fonéticas, o bien para indicar omisión del texto cuando encierran tres puntos suspensivos.
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 corchete
- corchetes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corchete?
- /koɾˈt͡ʃete/
- [koɾˈt͡ʃe.t̪e]
- [koɾˈt͡ʃet̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to corchete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is corchete in Spanish?
corchete appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).