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espacio

Spanish, noun

espacio is spelled E-S-P-A-C-I-O (7 letters) and appears 138 times per million words in written Spanish, the 625th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espacio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “space (distance between things)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of espaciar. With an accent, espació is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of espaciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “El contenido de un volumen, el conjunto de puntos, áreas ocupadas por un objeto”.

What does espacio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinespace (distance between things)

  2. 2

    masculinespace (physical extent across two or three dimensions)

  3. 3

    masculinespace (physical extent in all directions; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere)

  4. 4

    masculinespace (the near-vacuum in which celestial bodies are situated)

  5. 5

    masculinespace (the physical and psychological area one needs)

  6. 6

    masculinespace (an area with set boundaries)

  7. 7

    masculinespace; course; period (an undefined period of time)

  8. 8

    masculinespace (a gap in text between words, lines, etc.)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of espaciar

verb

as espació
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of espaciar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. El contenido de un volumen, el conjunto de puntos, áreas ocupadas por un objeto. 2. La capacidad de almacenamiento de un lugar. 3. Distancia o separación entre dos objetos o dos lugares. 4. Extensión formada por una estructura de varias dimensiones que es ocupada por los cuerpos, sus trayectorias, la radiación, las ondas, etc.

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 espacio

  • espacios plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to espacio

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is espacio in Spanish?

espacio appears 138 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).

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