leño
Spanish, noun
leño is spelled L-E-Ñ-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,142nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “log; piece of wood, timber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of leñar. With a tilde, leñó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of leñar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pedazo de tronco de un árbol cortado y desramado”.
What does leño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelog; piece of wood, timber
- 2
Mexicomasculineslangjoint (marijuana cigarette)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of leñar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of leñar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pedazo de tronco de un árbol cortado y desramado. 2. Parte más consistente del tallo de los vegetales.
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 leño
- leños plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to leño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is leño in Spanish?
leño 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).