cosquillas
Spanish, noun
cosquillas is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “tickling, tickle (feeling resembling the result of tickling)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of cosquilla. With an accent, cosquillás is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present indicative of cosquillar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sensación placentera –si es breve–, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros.…”.
What does cosquillas mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetickling, tickle (feeling resembling the result of tickling)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of cosquilla
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of cosquillar
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present indicative of cosquillar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sensación placentera –si es breve–, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros. Paradójicamente, consiste en una conmoción desagradable que suele provocar risa involuntaria. Aplicada en exceso se convierte en tortura. 2. Desavenencia, inquietud, rencilla.
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.
English words that translate to cosquillas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cosquillas in Spanish?
cosquillas appears 2.5 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).