sospecha
Spanish, noun
sospecha is spelled S-O-S-P-E-C-H-A (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,046th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sospecha is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “suspicion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of sospechar. With an accent, sospechá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of sospechar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Conjetura que se forma acerca de la probabilidad de una cosa”.
What does sospecha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesuspicion
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of sospechar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Conjetura que se forma acerca de la probabilidad de una cosa. 2. Desconfianza, recelo. 3. Duda, suspicacia. 4. Mesón.
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 sospecha
- sospechas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sospecha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sospecha in Spanish?
sospecha appears 12 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).