lecto
Spanish, noun/ˈleɡto/
lecto is spelled L-E-C-T-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 91,681st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lecto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “lect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Unidad lingüística común a un grupo de personas de un determinado lugar en una determinada época”.
What does lecto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelect
suffix
- 1
masculine-lect
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Elemento compositivo, creado a partir del término "dialecto", que forma sustantivos académicos relacionados con "lengua, modo de hablar, vocabulario" de lo indicado por el otro componente..
noun: 1. Unidad lingüística común a un grupo de personas de un determinado lugar en una determinada época.
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 lecto
- lectos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lecto?
- /ˈleɡto/
- [ˈleɣ̞.t̪o]
- [ˈlekt̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lecto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lecto in Spanish?
lecto appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).