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vaquero

/vɑˈkɛɹoʊ/noun

vaquero is a noun meaning “A cowboy; a herdsman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-Q-U-E-R-O, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaquero is vaqueros or vaqueroes.

What does vaquero mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA cowboy; a herdsman.

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

How do you pronounce vaquero?

  • /vɑˈkɛɹoʊ/

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

Forms of vaquero

  • vaqueros plural
  • vaqueroes plural

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

How common is vaquero?

Vaquero appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 vaquero come from?

From Spanish vaquero (“cowherd”), from vaca (“cow”). Doublet of buckaroo.

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