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desquicio

Spanish, noun

desquicio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “commotion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desquiciar. With an accent, desquició is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desquiciar”.

What does desquicio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecommotion

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of desquiciar

verb

as desquició
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of desquiciar

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

Forms of desquicio

  • desquicios plural

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

How common is desquicio in Spanish?

desquicio appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).