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marquesita

Spanish, noun

marquesita is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a dessert made from a thin wafer rolled into a tube and stuffed with cheese and sweet fillings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of marquesa.

What does marquesita mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Mexicofemininea dessert made from a thin wafer rolled into a tube and stuffed with cheese and sweet fillings

  2. 2

    femininediminutive of marquesa

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

Forms of marquesita

  • marquesitas plural

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

How common is marquesita in Spanish?

marquesita appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).