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descanso

Spanish, noun

descanso is spelled D-E-S-C-A-N-S-O (8 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,872nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descanso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “rest, break” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of descansar. With an accent, descansó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of descansar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Momento, circunstancia o estado en que se deja de trabajar o de sentir cansancio, fatiga o tensión”.

What does descanso mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerest, break

  2. 2

    masculinerelief

  3. 3

    masculinehalf-time

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of descansar

verb

as descansó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of descansar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Momento, circunstancia o estado en que se deja de trabajar o de sentir cansancio, fatiga o tensión. 2. Situación, posición, circunstancia, acto o factor que permite aliviar el cansancio o la fatiga, tanto física como anímica. 3. Área plana y amplia (meseta) de las escaleras, que marca la separación entre dos tramos de escalones. 4. Pausa durante la cual se interrumpe la representación de un espectáculo.

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 descanso

  • descansos plural

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

English words that translate to descanso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is descanso in Spanish?

descanso appears 29 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).

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