secuestro
Spanish, noun
secuestro is spelled S-E-C-U-E-S-T-R-O (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,378th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secuestro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “kidnapping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of secuestrar. With an accent, secuestró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of secuestrar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “La acción y efecto de retener ilegalmente a alguien”.
What does secuestro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekidnapping
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of secuestrar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of secuestrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. La acción y efecto de retener ilegalmente a alguien. 2. La acción y el efecto de apoderase ilegalmente y con el uso de la fuerza de el control de un vehículo. 3. Conjunto de bienes cuya propiedad está sujeta a disputa judicial y que se depositan con un tercero mientras esta se define. 4. La acción y el efecto de embargar.
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 secuestro
- secuestros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to secuestro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is secuestro in Spanish?
secuestro appears 14 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).