bamboleo
Spanish, noun
bamboleo is spelled B-A-M-B-O-L-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 108,574th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bamboleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “swaying; wobbling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of bambolear. With an accent, bamboleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of bambolear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de bambolear o de bambolearse”.
What does bamboleo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswaying; wobbling
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of bambolear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of bambolear
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 bambolear o de bambolearse.
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 bamboleo
- bamboleos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bamboleo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bamboleo in Spanish?
bamboleo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).