menoscabo
Spanish, noun
menoscabo is spelled M-E-N-O-S-C-A-B-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 50,132nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menoscabo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “reduction (effect of diminishing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of menoscabar. With an accent, menoscabó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of menoscabar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de menoscabar”.
What does menoscabo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinereduction (effect of diminishing)
- 2
masculinedeterioration, decline
- 3
masculinedishonor
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of menoscabar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of menoscabar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de menoscabar.
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 menoscabo
- menoscabos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is menoscabo in Spanish?
menoscabo appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).