balbuceo
Spanish, noun
balbuceo is spelled B-A-L-B-U-C-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 91,681st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balbuceo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “muttering, stammering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of balbucear. With an accent, balbuceó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of balbucear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de balbucear”.
What does balbuceo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemuttering, stammering
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of balbucear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of balbucear
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 balbucear.
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 balbuceo
- balbuceos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to balbuceo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balbuceo in Spanish?
balbuceo appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).