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sañudo

Spanish, adjective/saˈɲudo/

sañudo is a Spanish adjective meaning “cruel; wicked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que se comporta con saña”.

What does sañudo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    cruel; wicked

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que se comporta con saña. 2. Que es propenso a la crueldad o al rencor.

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 sañudo

  • sañuda feminine
  • sañudos masculine plural
  • sañudas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sañudo?

  • /saˈɲudo/
  • [saˈɲu.ð̞o]
  • [saˈɲuð̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is sañudo in Spanish?

sañudo appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).