soborno
Spanish, noun
soborno is spelled S-O-B-O-R-N-O (7 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,054th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soborno is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bribery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sobornar. With an accent, sobornó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of sobornar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de sobornar”.
What does soborno mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebribery
- 2
masculinebribe
- 3
masculinesubornation
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sobornar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of sobornar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de sobornar. 2. Algo (generalmente dinero) que se da a cambio de influencia o de acciones deshonestas. 3. Acto u objeto que incita en quien lo recibe la necesidad de complacer a quien lo da.
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 soborno
- sobornos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to soborno
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soborno in Spanish?
soborno appears 3.0 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).