desaire
Spanish, noun
desaire is spelled D-E-S-A-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,884th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desaire is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “snub; slight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of desairar. With an accent, desairé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of desairar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Falta de amabilidad, o de cortesía”.
What does desaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesnub; slight
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of desairar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Falta de amabilidad, o de cortesía. 2. Falta de gracia, o de gallardía.
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 desaire
- desaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desaire in Spanish?
desaire appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).