secreto
Spanish, noun
secreto is spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-O (7 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,768th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secreto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a secret” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of secretar. With an accent, secretó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of secretar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lo que se oculta con gran empeño”.
What does secreto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
secret
noun
- 1
masculinea secret
guardar el secreto
- 2
masculinesecrecy
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of secretar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of secretar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que no se da a conocer a los demás, que queda en el conocimiento de pocas personas. 2. Que permanece sin exteriorizarse, que se guarda dentro de sí mismo. 3. Que se hace de forma que no se sabe lo que ha hecho cada cual. 4. Propio o relativo a los secretos de estado.
noun: 1. Lo que se oculta con gran empeño. 2. Lo que se mantiene bajo reserva, que no se hace público. 3. Lo que no puede conocerse, que no está al alcance del entendimiento. 4. Asunto entre personas que se mantiene oculto.
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 secreto
- secreta feminine
- secretos masculine plural
- secretas feminine plural
- secretísimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to secreto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is secreto in Spanish?
secreto appears 49 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).