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no

Spanish, noun

no is spelled N-O (2 letters) and appears 14,454 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). No is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “no” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, NO is a different word: “abbreviation of noroeste; northwest”. With a tilde, ño is a different word: “synonym of no”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Negación o negativa”.

What does no mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    not

interjection

  1. 1

    no

  2. 2

    eh?, right?, isn't it? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what precedes, or to request that the listener express an opinion)

noun

  1. 1

    masculineno

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of número; no.

noun

as NO
  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of noroeste; northwest

particle

as ño
  1. 1

    synonym of no

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. Adverbio de negación, respondiendo a una pregunta. 2. Adverbio de negación, negando la frase o expresión que sigue. 3. Adverbio de negación, que niega la existencia o realidad del concepto expresado por el adjetivo o sustantivo al que antecede. 4. Adverbio de negación necesario al comienzo de las frases con nada, nadie, nunca, y otras negaciones después del verbo.

noun: 1. Negación o negativa.

interjection: 1. Para terminar una pregunta confirmatoria. 2. Para expresar frustración, decepción o enojo. 3. Siendo espectador de una disputa, se usa para reforzar una diatriba que pone en ridículo a una o varias personas.

noun: 1. Antepuesto al nombre de una persona: señor.

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 no

  • non alternative archaic
  • ¿no canonical
  • noes plural
  • nos plural
  • № alternative
  • No. alternative
  • no. alternative
  • ños plural

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

English words that translate to no

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is no in Spanish?

no appears 14,454 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).

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