estaño
Spanish, noun
estaño is spelled E-S-T-A-Ñ-O (6 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 25,551st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estaño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “tin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of estañar. With a tilde, estañó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of estañar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Elemento químico metálico, cuyo número atómico es el 50 y que está situado en el grupo 14 de la tabla…”.
What does estaño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetin
- 2
masculinesolder (tin alloy used to solder)
- 3
masculineobsoletelagoon, pond
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of estañar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of estañar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Elemento químico metálico, cuyo número atómico es el 50 y que está situado en el grupo 14 de la tabla periódica de los elementos, con el símbolo Sn.
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.
English words that translate to estaño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estaño in Spanish?
estaño appears 1.7 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).