desarrollo
Spanish, noun
desarrollo is spelled D-E-S-A-R-R-O-L-L-O (10 letters) and appears 251 times per million words in written Spanish, the 327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desarrollo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “development” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desarrollar. With an accent, desarrolló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desarrollar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de desarrollar o de desarrollarse”.
What does desarrollo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedevelopment
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desarrollar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desarrollar
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 desarrollar o de desarrollarse. 2. Proporción entre los dientes del plato y el piñón que establece la distancia avanzada por cada revolución de los pedales. 3. Progreso económico de una sociedad que conduce a la mejora de las condiciones de vida. 4. Configuración de los engranajes en un vehículo que regula la transferencia de potencia a las ruedas según la velocidad seleccionada.
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 desarrollo
- desarrollos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desarrollo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desarrollo in Spanish?
desarrollo appears 251 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).