desempeño
Spanish, noun
desempeño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “performance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desempeñar. With a tilde, desempeñó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of desempeñar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de desempeñar o desempeñarse”.
What does desempeño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperformance
un desempeño meritorio
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desempeñar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of desempeñar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de desempeñar o desempeñarse. 2. La realización práctica de un trabajo o un encargo o su resultado.
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 desempeño
- desempeños plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desempeño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desempeño in Spanish?
desempeño appears 17 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).