quebrado
Spanish, noun/keˈbɾado/
quebrado is spelled Q-U-E-B-R-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,890th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quebrado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “número quebrado: fraction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of quebrar.
What does quebrado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bankrupt; broke
- 2
broken
- 3
uneven; coarse; rough
- 4
capable of both attack and defense; spirited; skilled at dodging (cf. quiebro, quebradillo)
noun
- 1
masculinenúmero quebrado: fraction
- 2
masculineverso quebrado: a line of poetry shorter than the surrounding or natural meter of the poem (cf. hemistich)
- 3
masculinehernia
verb
- 1
past participle of quebrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que ha entrado en bancarrota o quiebra. 2. Que padece quebradura o hernia. 3. Quebrantado, debilitado. 4. Dicho sobre un terreno: desigual, tortuoso y con altibajos.
verb: 1. Participio de quebrar o de quebrarse.
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 quebrado
- quebrada feminine
- quebrados masculine plural
- quebradas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quebrado?
- /keˈbɾado/
- [keˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞o]
- [keˈβ̞ɾað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quebrado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quebrado in Spanish?
quebrado appears 2.8 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).