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intermedio

Spanish, noun

intermedio is spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-E-D-I-O (10 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,486th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intermedio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “intermission” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of intermediar. With an accent, intermedió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of intermediar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Espacio que hay de un tiempo a otro o de una acción a otra”.

What does intermedio mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    intermediate

noun

  1. 1

    masculineintermission

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of intermediar

verb

as intermedió
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of intermediar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que está entremedio o en medio de los extremos de lugar o tiempo.

noun: 1. Espacio que hay de un tiempo a otro o de una acción a otra. 2. Espacio de tiempo durante el cual queda interrumpida la representación o ejecución de poemas dramáticos, óperas, o cualquier espectáculo semejante, desde que termina cada uno de los actos o partes de la función hasta que empieza el acto o parte siguiente. 3. Baile, música, sainete, etc., que se ejecuta entre los actos de una comedia o de otra pieza de teatro.

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 intermedio

  • intermedia feminine
  • intermedios masculine plural
  • intermedias feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to intermedio

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is intermedio in Spanish?

intermedio appears 7.9 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).

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