empleado
Spanish, noun/empleˈado/
empleado is spelled E-M-P-L-E-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,980th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empleado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “employee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of emplear.
What does empleado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
employed
noun
- 1
masculineemployee
verb
- 1
past participle of emplear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dedicado al desempeño de algún cargo.
verb: 1. Participio de emplear.
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 empleado
- empleada feminine
- empleados masculine plural
- empleadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empleado?
- /empleˈado/
- [ẽm.pleˈa.ð̞o]
- [ẽmpleˈað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empleado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empleado in Spanish?
empleado appears 28 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).