daño
Spanish, noun
daño is spelled D-A-Ñ-O (4 letters) and appears 76 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,169th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Daño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “damage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of dañar. With a tilde, dañó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of dañar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de dañar”.
What does daño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedamage
- 2
masculinehex, curse
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of dañar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of dañar
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 dañar. 2. Condición que afecta la integridad, salud o bienestar. 3. Sensación dolorosa o sufrimiento corporal. 4. Sufrimiento moral.
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 daño
- daños plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to daño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is daño in Spanish?
daño appears 76 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).