leonés
Spanish, noun
leonés is spelled L-E-O-N-É-S (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,116th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leonés is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Leonese person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, leones is a different word: “plural of león”.
What does leonés mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Leonese
noun
- 1
masculineLeonese person
noun
- 1
masculineLeonese (language)
noun
- 1
masculineplural of león
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Originario, relativo a, o propio de León, ciudad de España. 2. Originario, relativo a, o propio de León, provincia de España. 3. Originario, relativo a, o propio de León, antiguo reino de España.
noun: 1. Lengua romance hablada en el territorio del antiguo Reino de León. 2. Grupo lingüístico romance que nació en Asturias y el antiguo reino de León.
noun: 1. Prenda de vestir de largo variable, que cubre desde la cintura hacia abajo ciñendo cada pierna separadamente.
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 leonés
- leonesa feminine
- leoneses masculine plural
- leonesas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to leonés
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is leonés in Spanish?
leonés appears 10 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).