desaté
Spanish, verb
desaté is spelled D-E-S-A-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 78,932nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desaté is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular preterite indicative of desatar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, desate is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does desaté mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of desatar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
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 desatarse ('hablar de más'). 2. Acción o efecto de desatarse ('obrar sin control').
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 desaté
- desates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is desaté in Spanish?
desaté appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).