pretexto
Spanish, noun
pretexto is spelled P-R-E-T-E-X-T-O (8 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,364th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pretexto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pretext” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pretextar. With an accent, pretextó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of pretextar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Motivo inventado con el que alguien justifica el hacer o dejar de hacer algo”.
What does pretexto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepretext
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of pretextar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of pretextar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Motivo inventado con el que alguien justifica el hacer o dejar de hacer algo.
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 pretexto
- pretextos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pretexto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pretexto in Spanish?
pretexto appears 8.1 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).