alerta
Spanish, noun
alerta is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “alarm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of alertar. With an accent, alertá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of alertar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Aviso, requerimiento de atención, por ejemplo: "Alerta de tsunami", "Alerta meteorológica"”.
What does alerta mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinealert, vigilant
adverb
- 1
alertly
noun
- 1
femininealarm
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of alertar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Adjetivo invariante en género que denota estado de atención o vigilancia. 2. Adjetivo variante en género que denota estado de atención o vigilancia, la versión masculina alerto es poco usual.
noun: 1. Aviso, requerimiento de atención, por ejemplo: "Alerta de tsunami", "Alerta meteorológica".
adverb: 1. Adverbio que corresponde a "estar alerta", "andar alerta", etc.
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 alerta
- alertas feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to alerta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alerta in Spanish?
alerta appears 24 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).