apaleo
Spanish, noun
apaleo is spelled A-P-A-L-E-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Spanish, the 185,934th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apaleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hit with a spade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of apalear. With an accent, apaleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of apalear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de apalear, de levantar el grano con la pala para que el viento separe la paja”.
What does apaleo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehit with a spade
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of apalear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of apalear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de apalear, de levantar el grano con la pala para que el viento separe la paja. 2. Temporada para apalear₁. 3. Acción y resultado de ganar o mostrar que se tiene mucho dinero.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apaleo
- apaleos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is apaleo in Spanish?
apaleo appears about once in every 26 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).