curioso
Spanish, noun/kuˈɾjoso/
curioso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “gawker, onlooker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does curioso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
curious, inquisitive (person)
- 2
interesting
- 3
funny, strange, odd
- 4
quaint
noun
- 1
masculinegawker, onlooker
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que tiene el deseo de ver, averiguar o conocer una cosa. 2. Dícese de un evento u objeto, sorpresivo, inesperado o extravagante por sus dimensiones o características físicas o por su carácter no intuitivo, que produce o estimula la curiosidad.
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 curioso
- curiosa feminine
- curiosos masculine plural
- curiosas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce curioso?
- /kuˈɾjoso/
- [kuˈɾjo.so]
- [kuˈɾjoso]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to curioso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is curioso in Spanish?
curioso appears 23 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).