desatento
Spanish, adjective
desatento is spelled D-E-S-A-T-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish, the 197,982nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desatento is a Spanish adjective meaning “inattentive, careless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, desatentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desatentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que pone poca atención”.
What does desatento mean in English?
adjective
- 1
inattentive, careless
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desatentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que pone poca atención. 2. Mal educado, poco amable o descortés.
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 desatento
- desatenta feminine
- desatentos masculine plural
- desatentas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desatento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desatento in Spanish?
desatento appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).