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arrabalero

Spanish, noun/arabaˈleɾo/

arrabalero is spelled A-R-R-A-B-A-L-E-R-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 158,678th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrabalero is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “slumdog; person living in the slum or the poorer district of town” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does arrabalero mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineslumdog; person living in the slum or the poorer district of town

  2. 2

    masculinecoarse or vulgar person

adjective

  1. 1

    slum

  2. 2

    coarse; vulgar; uncouth

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que vive en los arrabales o periferias de las ciudades. 2. Persona con mala vestimenta, malos modales y lenguaje vulgar.

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 arrabalero

  • arrabaleros plural
  • arrabalera feminine
  • arrabaleras feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce arrabalero?

  • /arabaˈleɾo/
  • [a.ra.β̞aˈle.ɾo]
  • [araβ̞aˈleɾo]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is arrabalero in Spanish?

arrabalero appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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