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zanjo

Spanish, verb

zanjo is spelled Z-A-N-J-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 102,764th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zanjo is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of zanjar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, zanjó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of zanjar”.

What does zanjo mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of zanjar

verb

as zanjó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of zanjar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante de zanja (excavación alargada del terreno). 2. Hendidura provocada por el agua que corre.

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 zanjo

  • zanjos plural

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

How common is zanjo in Spanish?

zanjo appears about once in every 7 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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