desperado
French, noun/dɛs.pe.ʁa.do/
desperado is spelled D-E-S-P-E-R-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desperado is a French masculine noun meaning “desperado” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qu’une situation sans issue pousse à des actes désespérés”.
What does desperado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedesperado
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qu’une situation sans issue pousse à des actes désespérés.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de desperado.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desperado
- desperados plural
- despérado
- despérados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desperado?
- /dɛs.pe.ʁa.do/
- \des.pe.ʁa.do\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desperado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desperado in French?
desperado appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).