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vacío

Spanish, noun

vacío is spelled V-A-C-Í-O (5 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,709th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vacío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “vacuum, void” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of vaciar. With an accent, vació is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of vaciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Concavidad o hueco de algunas cosas”.

What does vacío mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    empty, vacant

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevacuum, void

  2. 2

    masculineempty space; gap

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of vaciar

verb

as vació
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of vaciar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que físicamente no contiene nada. 2. Que no contiene nada, referido a un concepto o una idea abstracta. 3. Aplícase, en los ganados, a la hembra: Que no tiene cría en su interior. 4. Dicho de un lugar: Sin gente o con poca gente.

noun: 1. Concavidad o hueco de algunas cosas. 2. Parte lateral del tórax, comprendida entre la última costilla y la cadera. 3. Caída pronunciada. 4. Movimiento de la danza española, que se hace levantando un pie con violencia y bajándolo después naturalmente.

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 vacío

  • vacía feminine
  • vacíos masculine plural
  • vacías feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to vacío

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is vacío in Spanish?

vacío appears 31 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).

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