incauto
Spanish, noun
incauto is spelled I-N-C-A-U-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 51,418th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incauto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “gullible or unwary person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an only used in me incauto, first-person singular present indicative of incautarse. With an accent, incautó is a different word: “only used in se incautó, third-person singular preterite indicative…”.
What does incauto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dupe, gullible, unwary, naive
- 2
careless
noun
- 1
masculinegullible or unwary person
verb
- 1
only used in me incauto, first-person singular present indicative of incautarse
verb
- 1
only used in se incautó, third-person singular preterite indicative of incautarse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Falto de cautela, de malicia.
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 incauto
- incauta feminine
- incautos masculine plural
- incautas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to incauto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incauto in Spanish?
incauto appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).