saqueo
Spanish, noun
saqueo is spelled S-A-Q-U-E-O (6 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,627th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saqueo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “sack, plunder, pillage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of saquear. With an accent, saqueó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of saquear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apropiación violenta por parte de un grupo de soldados u otras personas de lo que se encuentra en un lugar o…”.
What does saqueo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesack, plunder, pillage
el Saqueo de Roma
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of saquear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of saquear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Apropiación violenta por parte de un grupo de soldados u otras personas de lo que se encuentra en un lugar o territorio tomado.
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 saqueo
- saqueos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to saqueo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saqueo in Spanish?
saqueo appears 5.9 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).