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atole

noun

atole is spelled A-T-O-L-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, atole means “A sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of atole is atoles.

How many letters and syllables are in atole?

Letters5: A-T-O-L-E
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is atole?

Atole appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of atole

  • atoles plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does atole mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Atole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense cornmeal beverage:

LanguageWords
Spanishatole, atol

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does atole come from?

From Spanish atole, from Classical Nahuatl ātōlli.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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