empanado
Spanish, adjective
empanado is spelled E-M-P-A-N-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 63,642nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empanado is a Spanish adjective meaning “coated in breadcrumbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of empanar. With a tilde, empañado is a different word: “past participle of empañar”.
What does empanado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
coated in breadcrumbs
- 2
Spaincolloquialnot paying attention
verb
- 1
past participle of empanar
verb
- 1
past participle of empañar
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 empanar.
verb: 1. Participio de empanar o de empanarse.
verb: 1. Participio de empañar.
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 empanado
- empanada feminine
- empanados masculine plural
- empanadas feminine plural
- empanao alternative pronunciation-spelling
- empañada feminine
- empañados masculine plural
- empañadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is empanado in Spanish?
empanado appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).