peán
Spanish, noun
peán is spelled P-E-Á-N (4 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish, the 268,459th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peán is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “paean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, pean is a different word: “third-person plural present subjunctive”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Canto o himno dirigido a Apolo o a otro dios o diosa, en agradecimiento por una victoria o como plegaria para…”.
What does peán mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepaean
verb
- 1
third-person plural present subjunctive
- 2
third-person plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Canto o himno dirigido a Apolo o a otro dios o diosa, en agradecimiento por una victoria o como plegaria para superar una dificultad. Usualmente eran cantados por un coro.
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 peán
- peanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is peán in Spanish?
peán appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).