seco
Spanish, adjective
seco is spelled S-E-C-O (4 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,150th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seco is a Spanish adjective meaning “dry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of secar. With an accent, secó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of secar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que no tiene agua, que no tiene humedad”.
What does seco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dry
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of secar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of secar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que no tiene agua, que no tiene humedad. 2. Dícese de las bebidas que no son dulces. 3. Que es áspero, directo, sin suavizantes. 4. Dicho de una persona, de genio arisco o de trato difícil.
noun: 1. Guiso típico de la gastronomía de Ecuador y la gastronomía de Perú. 2. Bebida alcohólica paraguaya hecha con la caña de azúcar. 3. Premio seco. 4. Puñetazo, piña.
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 seco
- seca feminine
- secos masculine plural
- secas feminine plural
- sequísimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to seco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seco in Spanish?
seco appears 19 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).