menosprecio
Spanish, noun
menosprecio is spelled M-E-N-O-S-P-R-E-C-I-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,389th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menosprecio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “underestimation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of menospreciar. With an accent, menospreció is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of menospreciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto de tener en poco, de considerar inferior o desvalorar algo o a alguien, incluso llegando al rechazo.…”.
What does menosprecio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineunderestimation
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of menospreciar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of menospreciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto de tener en poco, de considerar inferior o desvalorar algo o a alguien, incluso llegando al rechazo. Falta de aprecio o poca estimación.
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 menosprecio
- menosprecios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is menosprecio in Spanish?
menosprecio appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).