camelo
Spanish, noun
camelo is spelled C-A-M-E-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 76,156th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Camelo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bluff, hoax, con” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of camelar. With an accent, cameló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of camelar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cosa que aparenta ser algo bueno o favorable sin serlo”.
What does camelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebluff, hoax, con
- 2
masculinebaloney (fake news)
- 3
colloquialmasculineflattery, gallantry (especially towards women)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of camelar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of camelar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cosa que aparenta ser algo bueno o favorable sin serlo. 2. Noticia falsa o engañosa. 3. Galanteo, lisonjeo. 4. Chasco, burla.
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 camelo
- camelos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is camelo in Spanish?
camelo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).