infecto
Spanish, adjective
infecto is spelled I-N-F-E-C-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,142nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infecto is a Spanish adjective meaning “infested” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of infectar. With an accent, infectó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of infectar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de infectado”.
What does infecto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
infested
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of infectar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of infectar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Variante de infectado. 2. Inficionado, contagiado, pestilente, corrompido.
verb: 1. Participio irregular de infecir.
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 infecto
- infecta feminine
- infectos masculine plural
- infectas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to infecto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is infecto in Spanish?
infecto appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).