documento
Spanish, noun
documento is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,576th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Documento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “document, paper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of documentar. With an accent, documentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of documentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Texto escrito o impreso en papel que da fe de la veracidad de alguna cosa o soporte electrónico que…”.
What does documento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedocument, paper
- 2
masculinerecord
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of documentar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of documentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Texto escrito o impreso en papel que da fe de la veracidad de alguna cosa o soporte electrónico que, análogamente al documento en papel, guarda y refleja un contenido. 2. Cualquier cosa que da un testimonio sobre hechos históricos u ocurridos en otro lugar y fecha.
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 documento
- documentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to documento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is documento in Spanish?
documento appears 55 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).