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toreador

noun

toreador is spelled T-O-R-E-A-D-O-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, toreador means “A bullfighter, especially one on horseback” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of toreador is toreadors or toreadores.

How many letters and syllables are in toreador?

Letters8: T-O-R-E-A-D-O-R
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd 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 toreador?

Toreador appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 toreador

  • toreadors plural
  • toreadores plural

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

What does toreador mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A bullfighter, especially one on horseback.

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

Toreador in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a bullfighter:

LanguageWords
Frenchtoréador, toréro, torero
GermanTorero, Stierfechter
Portuguesetoureiro, toireiro, toureador
Spanishtorero, toreador

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 toreador come from?

From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus.

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

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