sorteo
Spanish, noun
sorteo is spelled S-O-R-T-E-O (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,766th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sorteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “lottery, raffle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sortear. With an accent, sorteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of sortear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hecho o acto de sortear”.
What does sorteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelottery, raffle
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sortear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of sortear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hecho o acto de sortear.
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 sorteo
- sorteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sorteo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sorteo in Spanish?
sorteo appears 11 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).