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iletrado

Spanish, noun/ileˈtɾado/

iletrado is spelled I-L-E-T-R-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 90,681st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Iletrado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “illiterate person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does iletrado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    illiterate

  2. 2

    uneducated

noun

  1. 1

    masculineilliterate person

  2. 2

    masculineuneducated person

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Analfabeto. 2. Falto de cultura.

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 iletrado

  • iletrada feminine
  • iletrados masculine plural
  • iletradas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce iletrado?

  • /ileˈtɾado/
  • [i.leˈt̪ɾa.ð̞o]
  • [ileˈt̪ɾað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to iletrado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is iletrado in Spanish?

iletrado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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