desfalco
Spanish, noun
desfalco is spelled D-E-S-F-A-L-C-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 39,622nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desfalco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “embezzlement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desfalcar. With an accent, desfalcó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desfalcar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Malversación, robo de algo que es la propiedad de otros, pero que se tenía en custodia”.
What does desfalco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineembezzlement
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desfalcar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desfalcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Malversación, robo de algo que es la propiedad de otros, pero que se tenía en custodia. 2. Delito que se consiste en apropiación ilícita de los bienes o dinero que pertenecen a la hacienda pública, por la persona que los tenía bajo su custodia.
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 desfalco
- desfalcos plural
- defalco alternative rare
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desfalco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desfalco in Spanish?
desfalco appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).