salto
Spanish, noun
salto is spelled S-A-L-T-O (5 letters) and appears 24 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,394th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “jump, leap, jumping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of saltar. With an accent, saltó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of saltar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de saltar (impulsarse o lanzarse al aire)”.
What does salto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejump, leap, jumping
hacer un salto
- 2
masculineskip
Dimos un salto de veinte páginas
- 3
masculinegap; difference
Hay un salto de cinco años entre los dos hermanos
- 4
masculinedive
- 5
masculinejump, vault
- 6
masculinewaterfall
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of saltar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of saltar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de saltar (impulsarse o lanzarse al aire). 2. Despeñadero profundo. 3. Caída de un caudal importante de agua, especialmente en instalaciones industriales, cascada.
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 salto
- saltos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to salto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salto in Spanish?
salto appears 24 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).