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arruga

Spanish, noun

arruga is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “wrinkle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of arrugar. With an accent, arrugá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of arrugar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pliegue (parte que se dobla) o raya de la piel, que puede resultar de distintos factores, pero generalmente…”.

What does arruga mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininewrinkle

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as arrugá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of arrugar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pliegue (parte que se dobla) o raya de la piel, que puede resultar de distintos factores, pero generalmente por la edad. 2. Por extensión, cualquier pliegue en una superficie o material flexible como la tela, el papel, etc. 3. Deuda que no se ha pagado por mucho tiempo después de vencer el plazo.

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 arruga

  • arrugas plural

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

English words that translate to arruga

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

How common is arruga in Spanish?

arruga appears 1.0 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).