intento
Spanish, noun
intento is spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 65 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,344th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “attempt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of intentar. With an accent, intentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of intentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de intentar”.
What does intento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineattempt
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of intentar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of intentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Atento.
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de intentar. 2. Intención, designio. 3. La cosa intentada.
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 intento
- intentos plural
- intenta feminine
- intentas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to intento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is intento in Spanish?
intento appears 65 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).