pueblo
pue·blo/ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/noun
pueblo is a noun meaning “A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-E-B-L-O and has 2 syllables (pue·blo), and it appears 1.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pueblo is pueblos.
What does pueblo mean?
noun
- 1
A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pueblo?
- UK /ˈpwɛ.bləʊ/
- US /ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/
Pueblo has 2 syllables, split pue·blo in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-pueblo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pueblo
- pueblos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pueblo?
Pueblo appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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).
Where does pueblo come from?
Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).