cortés
Spanish, adjective
cortés is spelled C-O-R-T-É-S (6 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,555th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cortés is a Spanish feminine adjective meaning “polite, courteous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of cortar. Without its accent, cortes is a different word: “plural of corte”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que actúa con cortesía o amabilidad, de buenas maneras”.
What does cortés mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinepolite, courteous
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of cortar
noun
- 1
masculineplural of corte
noun
- 1
feminineplural of corte
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of cortar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que actúa con cortesía o amabilidad, de buenas maneras.
noun: 1. Árbol maderable de tallo color café grisoso y flores amarillas, de la familia de las Bignoniáceas.
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 cortés
- corteses feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cortés
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cortés in Spanish?
cortés appears 33 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).