mazo
Spanish, noun
mazo is spelled M-A-Z-O (4 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,026th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mazo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mazar. With an accent, mazó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mazar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Martillo de gran tamaño y cabeza roma”.
What does mazo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)
- 2
masculinemallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head)
- 3
masculinegavel (wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, committee chairman, or auctioneer)
- 4
masculinepestle (club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar)
- 5
masculinedeck (pack or set of playing cards)
- 6
masculinehandful, bunch (group or number of things)
adverb
- 1
Spainheaps, a lot; (UK) loads, tons
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mazar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of mazar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Martillo de gran tamaño y cabeza roma. 2. Conjunto de naipes que componen un juego completo. 3. Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los vertebrados, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sólo se extiende durante la excreción y la cópula; en el ser humano no es retráctil. Está compuesto en su mayor parte por tejidos esponjosos, llamados cuerpos cavernosos, que al saturarse de sangre produc
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 mazo
- mazos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mazo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mazo in Spanish?
mazo appears 3.6 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).