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plano

Spanish, noun

plano is spelled P-L-A-N-O (5 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,450th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plano is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “plane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, plaño is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of plañir”. With a tilde, plañó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of plañir”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sucesión de puntos”.

What does plano mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    plane, level

  2. 2

    flat

noun

  1. 1

    masculineplane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions)

  2. 2

    masculinelevel

    Están en un mismo plano

  3. 3

    masculineshot

  4. 4

    masculineplan (of a building)

  5. 5

    masculinestreet plan, map of a city

  6. 6

    masculineshot

verb

as plaño
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of plañir

verb

as plañó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of plañir

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sucesión de puntos. 2. Enfoque particular de la cámara o de la vista. 3. Objeto geométrico de dos dimensiones.

adjective: 1. Se dice de una superficie que tiene la misma altura en cualquier parte. 2. Que no tiene sobresalientes ni protuberancias. 3. Llano.

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 plano

  • plana feminine
  • planos masculine plural
  • planas feminine plural
  • planísimo superlative

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

English words that translate to plano

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is plano in Spanish?

plano appears 35 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).

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