retranqueo
Spanish, noun
retranqueo is spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-Q-U-E-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish, the 249,533rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retranqueo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “setback (distance between a structure and a road)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of retranquear. With an accent, retranqueó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of retranquear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Posicion que se da á los cuerpos fuera de su regular esquadra”.
What does retranqueo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesetback (distance between a structure and a road)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of retranquear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of retranquear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Posicion que se da á los cuerpos fuera de su regular esquadra.
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 retranqueo
- retranqueos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is retranqueo in Spanish?
retranqueo appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).