vallenato
noun
vallenato is a noun meaning “A popular style of folk music from Colombia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-L-E-N-A-T-O, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vallenato is vallenatos.
What does vallenato mean?
noun
- 1
A popular style of folk music from Colombia.
- 2
A piece performed in this style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vallenato
- vallenatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vallenato?
Vallenato appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 vallenato come from?
From Spanish vallenato, from valle (“valley”) nato (“born”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).