fracaso
Spanish, noun
fracaso is spelled F-R-A-C-A-S-O (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,828th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fracaso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “downfall, ruin, calamity, disaster” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fracasar. With an accent, fracasó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fracasar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Situación en la que no se obtienen los resultados deseados y esperados”.
What does fracaso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedownfall, ruin, calamity, disaster
- 2
masculinefailure, flop
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fracasar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fracasar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Situación en la que no se obtienen los resultados deseados y esperados. 2. Suceso negativo e inopinado. 3. Destrucción o caída ruidosa. 4. Repentina disfunción orgánica.
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 fracaso
- fracasos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fracaso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fracaso in Spanish?
fracaso appears 30 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).