calentón
Spanish, noun/kalenˈton/
calentón is spelled C-A-L-E-N-T-Ó-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 63,642nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calentón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “blast of heat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does calentón mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialhorny
- 2
colloquialquick-tempered (easily or quickly angered or frustrated)
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineblast of heat
- 2
colloquialmasculinehorniness (the state, quality, or extent of being horny or sexually excited)
- 3
Mexicomasculineheater (device that produces and radiates heat)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of calentón
- calentona feminine
- calentones masculine plural
- calentonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calentón?
- /kalenˈton/
- [ka.lẽn̪ˈt̪õn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calentón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calentón in Spanish?
calentón appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).