desdeño
Spanish, noun
desdeño is spelled D-E-S-D-E-Ñ-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 108,574th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desdeño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “disdain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desdeñar. With a tilde, desdeñó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desdeñar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desdén”.
What does desdeño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedisdain
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desdeñar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desdeñar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Desdén.
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 desdeño
- desdeños plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desdeño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desdeño in Spanish?
desdeño appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).