fondeo
Spanish, noun
fondeo is spelled F-O-N-D-E-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 82,716th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fondeo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “anchoring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fondear. With an accent, fondeó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fondear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de fondear (asegurar una nave con anclas)”.
What does fondeo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineanchoring
- 2
masculinecheck for contraband products
- 3
masculinesounding (to find depth)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fondear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fondear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y efecto de fondear (asegurar una nave con anclas). 2. El reconocimiento que hacen en un buque los empleados de rentas para ver si traen artículos de contrabando. 3. Buceo.
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 fondeo
- fondeos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fondeo in Spanish?
fondeo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).