marqués
Spanish, noun
marqués is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-É-S (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,469th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marqués is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “marquess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of marcar. Without its accent, marques is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of marcar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Señor poseedor de una tierra situada en la marca de un reino”.
What does marqués mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemarquess
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of marcar
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of marcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Señor poseedor de una tierra situada en la marca de un reino. 2. Hombre con el título nobiliario inferior al de duque y superior al de conde, entre la nobleza europea.
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 marqués
- marqueses plural
- marquesa feminine
- marquesas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to marqués
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marqués in Spanish?
marqués appears 14 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).