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delicatessen

Spanish, noun/delikaˈtesen/

delicatessen is spelled D-E-L-I-C-A-T-E-S-S-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 82,716th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delicatessen is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “delicatessen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does delicatessen mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedelicatessen

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of delicatessen

  • delicatessens plural
  • delicatesen alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce delicatessen?

  • /delikaˈtesen/
  • [d̪e.li.kaˈt̪e.sẽn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is delicatessen in Spanish?

delicatessen appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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