requeté
Spanish, noun/rekete/
requeté is spelled R-E-Q-U-E-T-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 133,746th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Requeté is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a Carlist soldier during the First Carlist War” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cuerpo armado de voluntarios que durante las guerras Carlista y Civil españolas, luchaba por el bando…”.
What does requeté mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea Carlist soldier during the First Carlist War
- 2
masculinea Franquist soldier from Navarre during the Spanish Civil War
prefix
- 1
colloquialto a great extent, very
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. Prefijo con valor intensificador.
noun: 1. Cuerpo armado de voluntarios que durante las guerras Carlista y Civil españolas, luchaba por el bando carlista y por el estamento católico del país. 2. Voluntario de un requeté₁.
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 requeté
- requetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce requeté?
- /rekete/
- [re.ke.t̪e]
- [rekeˈt̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to requeté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is requeté in Spanish?
requeté appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).