incentivo
Spanish, noun
incentivo is spelled I-N-C-E-N-T-I-V-O (9 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,623rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incentivo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “incentive, stimulus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of incentivar. With an accent, incentivó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of incentivar”.
What does incentivo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineincentive, stimulus
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of incentivar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of incentivar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que incita, que motiva, el deseo o a la acción.
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 incentivo
- incentivos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to incentivo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incentivo in Spanish?
incentivo appears 4.2 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).