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desempleado

Spanish, noun/desempleˈado/

desempleado is spelled D-E-S-E-M-P-L-E-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,401st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desempleado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “unemployed (person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does desempleado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unemployed

noun

  1. 1

    masculineunemployed (person)

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que no tiene empleo, que no tiene trabajo remunerado. 2. Que no se usa o aprovecha.

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 desempleado

  • desempleada feminine
  • desempleados masculine plural
  • desempleadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce desempleado?

  • /desempleˈado/
  • [d̪e.sẽm.pleˈa.ð̞o]
  • [d̪esẽmpleˈað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to desempleado

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

How common is desempleado in Spanish?

desempleado appears 1.8 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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