dispensa
Spanish, noun
dispensa is spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 45,779th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dispensa is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “dispensation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of dispensar. With an accent, dispensá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of dispensar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Excepción al cumplimiento de una norma general que una autoridad concede graciosamente a alguien. Se una más…”.
What does dispensa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedispensation
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of dispensar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Excepción al cumplimiento de una norma general que una autoridad concede graciosamente a alguien. Se una más comúnmente para referirse a las que el papa o los obispos conceden a los fieles católicos. 2. Documento o instrumento jurídico en el que está escrita la dispensa₁.
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 dispensa
- dispensas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dispensa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dispensa in Spanish?
dispensa appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).