birlo
Spanish, noun
birlo is spelled B-I-R-L-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Spanish, the 224,790th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Birlo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “synonym of ladrón (“thief”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of birlar. With an accent, birló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of birlar”.
What does birlo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslangsynonym of ladrón (“thief”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of birlar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of birlar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of birlo
- birlos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is birlo in Spanish?
birlo appears about once in every 40 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).