pausa
Spanish, noun
pausa is spelled P-A-U-S-A (5 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,631st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pausa is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “break, pause, rest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pausar. With an accent, pausá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pausar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pequeña parada o interrupción cuando se está haciendo algo”.
What does pausa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebreak, pause, rest
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of pausar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pequeña parada o interrupción cuando se está haciendo algo. 2. Lentitud en la forma de hacer una tarea. 3. Acto de hacer durar el silencio de una nota musical más de lo normal. 4. Silencio con el que se marca un grupo de sonidos de una frase.
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 pausa
- pausas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pausa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pausa in Spanish?
pausa appears 7.8 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).