desvío
Spanish, noun
desvío is spelled D-E-S-V-Í-O (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14,293rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desvío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “detour, diversion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desviar. With an accent, desvió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desviar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de desviar”.
What does desvío mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedetour, diversion
- 2
masculineredirection
- 3
masculinedeviation
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desviar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desviar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de desviar. 2. Tramo de un camino que se aparta del principal, y que generalmente se construye de forma transitoria por motivos de mantenimiento o reforma de la vía pública. 3. Despego, desagrado. 4. Indiferencia
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 desvío
- desvíos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desvío
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desvío in Spanish?
desvío appears 3.9 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).