impulso
Spanish, noun
impulso is spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-O (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,314th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impulso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “drive, urge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of impulsar. With an accent, impulsó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of impulsar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de impulsar”.
What does impulso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrive, urge
- 2
masculineimpulse, pulse
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of impulsar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of impulsar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de impulsar. 2. Sugestión o instigación. 3. Dícese del estímulo que se hace en la promoción de algo. 4. Fuerza con que a veces se actúa de manera rápida y sin haber reflexionado.
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 impulso
- impulsos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to impulso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impulso in Spanish?
impulso appears 18 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).