frío
Spanish, noun
frío is spelled F-R-Í-O (4 letters) and appears 50 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,727th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of freír. Without its accent, frio is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of freír”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ausencia de calor”.
What does frío mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cold (having a low temperature)
- 2
cool
- 3
cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
- 4
cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)
noun
- 1
masculinecold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)
Había nevado tanto que el frío quemaba en la montaña.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of freír
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of freír
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. De temperatura inferior a la normal. 2. Figuradamente, poco pasible de emoción o sentimiento. 3. Que se mantiene implacable y lúcido incluso en situaciones de presión. 4. Referido a un color, aquel en el que predominan matices verdes y azules (como el agua).
noun: 1. Ausencia de calor. 2. Sensación que registra el cuerpo cuando la temperatura exterior es menor que la del propio organismo.
adjective: 1. Grafía alternativa de frío.
verb: 1. Grafía alternativa de frio.
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 frío
- fría feminine
- fríos masculine plural
- frías feminine plural
- friito diminutive
- friecito diminutive
- fredo alternative obsolete
- friísimo superlative
- frigidísimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to frío
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frío in Spanish?
frío appears 50 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).