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zip

Spanish, noun

zip is spelled Z-I-P (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 39,106th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zip is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “zip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, ZIP is a different word: “acronym of zona industrial de procesamiento”.

What does zip mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinezip

noun

as ZIP
  1. 1

    acronym of zona industrial de procesamiento

  2. 2

    acronym of zona industrial para el procesamiento

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

Forms of zip

  • zips plural

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

How common is zip in Spanish?

zip appears about once in every 1 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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