ostento
Spanish, verb
ostento is spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 75,210th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ostento is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of ostentar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ostentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of ostentar”.
What does ostento mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of ostentar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of ostentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Apariencia que denota prodigio de la naturaleza o cosa milagrosa o monstruosa, digna de verse.
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 ostento
- ostentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ostento in Spanish?
ostento appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).