despiadado
Spanish, adjective/despjaˈdado/
despiadado is spelled D-E-S-P-I-A-D-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 25,923rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despiadado is a Spanish adjective meaning “merciless, ruthless, cutthroat, pitiless, cold-blooded, remorseless, savage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que no tiene o muestra piedad”.
What does despiadado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
merciless, ruthless, cutthroat, pitiless, cold-blooded, remorseless, savage
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 o muestra piedad.
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 despiadado
- despiadada feminine
- despiadados masculine plural
- despiadadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despiadado?
- /despjaˈdado/
- [d̪es.pjaˈð̞a.ð̞o]
- [d̪espjaˈð̞að̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to despiadado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is despiadado in Spanish?
despiadado appears 1.6 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).