diabetes
Spanish, noun
diabetes is spelled D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S (8 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,952nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diabetes is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “diabetes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, diábetes is a different word: “not going to work”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Enfermedad muy grave caracterizada por excesiva secreción de orina más o menos cargada de glucosa, sed…”.
What does diabetes mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediabetes
noun
- 1
femininenot going to work
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enfermedad muy grave caracterizada por excesiva secreción de orina más o menos cargada de glucosa, sed inextinguible y enflaquecimiento progresivo. 2. Diabeto.
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 diabetes
- diábetes alternative nonstandard
- diábetis alternative Central-America
- diabetis alternative Bolivia
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diabetes
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diabetes in Spanish?
diabetes appears 6.5 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).