disperso
Spanish, adjective
disperso is spelled D-I-S-P-E-R-S-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 37,997th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disperso is a Spanish adjective meaning “dispersed, spread out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of dispersar. With an accent, dispersó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of dispersar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dícese de las cosas cuyas partes están separadas más de lo regular en su clase”.
What does disperso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dispersed, spread out
- 2
obsoletemissing in action
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of dispersar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of dispersar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dícese de las cosas cuyas partes están separadas más de lo regular en su clase. 2. Dicho de una persona: que cambia su atención constantemente. 3. Dícese del militar que por fuerza mayor o voluntariamente se encuentra incomunicado o disgregado del cuerpo a que pertenece. 4. Decíase del militar que no está agregado a ningún cuerpo y reside en el pueblo que elige.
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 disperso
- dispersa feminine
- dispersos masculine plural
- dispersas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to disperso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disperso in Spanish?
disperso appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).