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volador

noun

volador is a noun meaning “A flying fish of California (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-A-D-O-R, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of volador is voladors.

What does volador mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A flying fish of California (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus).

  2. 2

    A flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans).

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

Forms of volador

  • voladors plural

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

How common is volador?

Volador appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 volador come from?

From Spanish volador (“flying”).

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