pacto
Spanish, noun
pacto is spelled P-A-C-T-O (5 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,313th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pact” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pactar. With an accent, pactó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of pactar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acuerdo o tratado entre personas o entidades en donde se comprometen a cumplir lo estipulado”.
What does pacto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepact
- 2
masculinecontract, agreement
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of pactar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of pactar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acuerdo o tratado entre personas o entidades en donde se comprometen a cumplir lo estipulado. 2. Trato, negociación o convenio.
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 pacto
- pactos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pacto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pacto in Spanish?
pacto appears 25 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).