cabello
Spanish, noun/kaˈbeʝo/
cabello is spelled C-A-B-E-L-L-O (7 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,450th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabello is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hair (mass of hairs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cada uno de los pelos que crecen en la cabeza”.
What does cabello mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehair (mass of hairs)
- 2
masculinehair strand
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cada uno de los pelos que crecen en la cabeza. 2. Por extensión, conjunto de pelos de la cabeza. 3. Fibra o barba de la mazorca de maíz.
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 cabello
- cabellos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabello?
- /kaˈbeʝo/
- [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]
- [kaˈβ̞eʝo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabello
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabello in Spanish?
cabello appears 35 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).