responso
Spanish, noun
responso is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Responso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “prayer for the dead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of responsar. With an accent, responsó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of responsar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Responsorio que, separado del rezo, se dice por los difuntos”.
What does responso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprayer for the dead
- 2
colloquialmasculinetelling-off; bollocking
- 3
masculinerareresponse
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of responsar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of responsar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Responsorio que, separado del rezo, se dice por los difuntos.
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 responso
- responsos plural
- reponso alternative Chile colloquial
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to responso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is responso in Spanish?
responso appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).