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peño

Spanish, noun

peño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “foundling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its tilde, peno is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of penar”. With an accent, penó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of penar”.

What does peño mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefoundling

verb

as peno
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of penar

verb

as penó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of penar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of peño

  • peños plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is peño in Spanish?

peño appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).