desprecio
Spanish, noun
desprecio is spelled D-E-S-P-R-E-C-I-O (9 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,527th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desprecio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “scorn, contempt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of despreciar. With an accent, despreció is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of despreciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto de considerar inferior o desvalorizar, incluso llegando al rechazo, algo o a alguien”.
What does desprecio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescorn, contempt
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of despreciar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of despreciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto de considerar inferior o desvalorizar, incluso llegando al rechazo, algo o a alguien. 2. Falta de aprecio o estimación.
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 desprecio
- desprecios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desprecio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desprecio in Spanish?
desprecio appears 9.3 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).