buyo
Spanish, noun/ˈbuʝo/
buyo is spelled B-U-Y-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 150,504th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buyo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a mixture of areca nut, betel pepper leaves and shell lime, used for betelnut chewing in the Philippines and other Asian countries around…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mixtura hecha con el fruto de la areca, hojas de betel y cal de conchas, que mascan los naturales del Extremo…”.
What does buyo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea mixture of areca nut, betel pepper leaves and shell lime, used for betelnut chewing in the Philippines and other Asian countries around the Pacific
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mixtura hecha con el fruto de la areca, hojas de betel y cal de conchas, que mascan los naturales del Extremo Oriente.
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 buyo
- buyos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buyo?
- /ˈbuʝo/
- [ˈbu.ʝo]
- [ˈbuʝo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buyo in Spanish?
buyo appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).