bailotear
Spanish, verb/bailoteˈaɾ/
bailotear is a Spanish verb meaning “to dance around, to shimmy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Bailar mucho, y en especial cuando se hace sin gracia ni formalidad”.
What does bailotear mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto dance around, to shimmy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Bailar mucho, y en especial cuando se hace sin gracia ni formalidad.
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 bailotear
- bailoteo first-person present singular
- bailoteé first-person preterite singular
- bailoteado participle past
- bailoteando gerund
- bailoteada feminine participle past
- bailoteados masculine participle past
- bailoteadas feminine participle past
- bailoteas indicative informal present
- bailoteás indicative informal present
- bailotea indicative present singular
- bailoteamos first-person indicative plural
- bailoteáis indicative plural present
- bailotean indicative plural present
- bailoteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- bailoteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- bailoteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- bailoteabais imperfect indicative plural
- bailoteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bailotear?
- /bailoteˈaɾ/
- [bai̯.lo.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [bajlot̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bailotear in Spanish?
bailotear appears about once in every 48 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).