del
Spanish, contraction
del is spelled D-E-L (3 letters) and appears 10,233 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Del is a Spanish contraction meaning “of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dél is a different word: “of him, from him”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo el”.
What does del mean in English?
contraction
- 1
of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular).
contraction
- 1
obsoleteof him, from him
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo el.
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 del
- d'el alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is del in Spanish?
del appears 10,233 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).