tenso
Spanish, adjective
tenso is spelled T-E-N-S-O (5 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,619th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tenso is a Spanish adjective meaning “tense, strained, taut, tensed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tensar. With an accent, tensó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tensar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En tensión”.
What does tenso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tense, strained, taut, tensed
- 2
uptight, tense, stressed, edgy, fraught
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tensar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of tensar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. En tensión.
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 tenso
- tensa feminine
- tensos masculine plural
- tensas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tenso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tenso in Spanish?
tenso appears 2.9 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).