resabiado
Spanish, adjective/resaˈbjado/
resabiado is spelled R-E-S-A-B-I-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written Spanish, the 274,170th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resabiado is a Spanish adjective meaning “deft, crafty; streetwise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de una persona, que pone reparos aun por cosas de poca importancia”.
What does resabiado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
deft, crafty; streetwise
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Participio de resabiar.
adjective: 1. Dicho de una persona, que pone reparos aun por cosas de poca importancia.
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 resabiado
- resabiada feminine
- resabiados masculine plural
- resabiadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resabiado?
- /resaˈbjado/
- [re.saˈβ̞ja.ð̞o]
- [resaˈβ̞jað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to resabiado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resabiado in Spanish?
resabiado appears about once in every 62 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).