granizo
Spanish, noun
granizo is spelled G-R-A-N-I-Z-O (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Granizo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of granizar. With an accent, granizó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of granizar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Trozos de hielo de tamaño muy variable que precipitan desde las nubes en forma de una lluvia intensa”.
What does granizo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehail
- 2
masculinehailstone
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of granizar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of granizar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Trozos de hielo de tamaño muy variable que precipitan desde las nubes en forma de una lluvia intensa. 2. El evento en que cae granizo₁ desde las nubes. 3. En sentido figurado, algo que aparece en gran cantidad o intensamente.
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 granizo
- granizos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to granizo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is granizo in Spanish?
granizo appears 2.0 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).