desplante
Spanish, noun
desplante is spelled D-E-S-P-L-A-N-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 78,932nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desplante is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cheek, arrogance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of desplantar. With an accent, desplanté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of desplantar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Postura fuera de rectitud”.
What does desplante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecheek, arrogance
- 2
masculinerude remark
hicieron un desplante al futbolista
- 3
masculinelack of respect
- 4
masculinelack of, or loss of, footing
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of desplantar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Postura fuera de rectitud.
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 desplante
- desplantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is desplante in Spanish?
desplante appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).