peligro
Spanish, noun
peligro is spelled P-E-L-I-G-R-O (7 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,314th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peligro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “danger, peril” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of peligrar. With an accent, peligró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of peligrar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lo que puede causar un daño”.
What does peligro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedanger, peril
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of peligrar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of peligrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lo que puede causar un daño. 2. Situación en la que puede suceder una desgracia.
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 peligro
- peligros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to peligro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is peligro in Spanish?
peligro appears 66 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).