selfie
Spanish, noun
selfie is spelled S-E-L-F-I-E (6 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 19,055th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Selfie is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “selfie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of selfiar. With an accent, selfié is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of selfiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Autorretrato realizado con una cámara fotográfica digital, típicamente de un teléfono móvil o un tablet”.
What does selfie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineselfie
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of selfiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autorretrato realizado con una cámara fotográfica digital, típicamente de un teléfono móvil o un tablet.
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 selfie
- selfies plural
- selfi alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to selfie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is selfie in Spanish?
selfie appears 2.6 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).