inicio
Spanish, noun
inicio is spelled I-N-I-C-I-O (6 letters) and appears 68 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,286th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inicio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “start, initiation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of iniciar. With an accent, inició is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of iniciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Principio u origen de alguna cosa; punto de partida; momento o lugar en que algo comienza”.
What does inicio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestart, initiation
- 2
masculinehome (software term)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of iniciar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of iniciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Principio u origen de alguna cosa; punto de partida; momento o lugar en que algo comienza.
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 inicio
- inicios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to inicio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inicio in Spanish?
inicio appears 68 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).