empleo
Spanish, noun
empleo is spelled E-M-P-L-E-O (6 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,314th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “job, employment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of emplear. With an accent, empleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of emplear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de emplear”.
What does empleo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejob, employment
- 2
masculineuse, application
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of emplear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of emplear
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 emplear 2. Actividad laboral, ocupación u oficio. 3. Uso, servicio. 4. Hurto
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 empleo
- empleos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to empleo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empleo in Spanish?
empleo appears 66 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).