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teleserye

/t̪ɛlɛˈsɛɾjɛ/noun

teleserye is a noun meaning “A Philippine television drama, serialized in the manner of a soap opera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-L-E-S-E-R-Y-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of teleserye is teleseryes.

What does teleserye mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A Philippine television drama, serialized in the manner of a soap opera.

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

How do you pronounce teleserye?

  • /t̪ɛlɛˈsɛɾjɛ/

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

Forms of teleserye

  • teleseryes plural

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

How common is teleserye?

Teleserye appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 teleserye come from?

Borrowed from Tagalog teleserye.

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