endecha
Spanish, noun
endecha is spelled E-N-D-E-C-H-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish, the 234,430th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Endecha is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “dirge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of endechar. With an accent, endechá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of endechar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Canción triste y lamentable”.
What does endecha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedirge
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of endechar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Canción triste y lamentable. 2. Combinación métrica que se emplea repetida en composiciones de asunto luctuoso por lo común, y consta de cuatro versos de seis o siete sílabas, generalmente asonantados.
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 endecha
- endechas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to endecha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is endecha in Spanish?
endecha appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).