ocupado
Spanish, adjective/okuˈpado/
ocupado is spelled O-C-U-P-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,621st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ocupado is a Spanish adjective meaning “occupied” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of ocupar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de una persona, que trabaja mucho”.
What does ocupado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
occupied
- 2
busy
verb
- 1
past participle of ocupar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dicho de una persona, que trabaja mucho. 2. Dicho de una persona, que está trabajando y por lo tanto no está disponible. 3. Dicho de algo, que está siendo usado. 4. Dicho de terrenos y territorios, que están bajo el control ajeno de un grupo de personas, equipo deportivo, ejércitos u otro colectivo.
verb: 1. Participio de ocupar.
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 ocupado
- ocupada feminine
- ocupados masculine plural
- ocupadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ocupado?
- /okuˈpado/
- [o.kuˈpa.ð̞o]
- [okuˈpað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ocupado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ocupado in Spanish?
ocupado appears 22 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).