caribú
Spanish, noun/kaɾiˈbu/
caribú is spelled C-A-R-I-B-Ú (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 125,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caribú is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “caribou, reindeer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Rangifer tarandus) Cualquiera de las subespecies de renos que habitan en Canadá”.
What does caribú mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecaribou, reindeer
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Rangifer tarandus) Cualquiera de las subespecies de renos que habitan en Canadá.
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 caribú
- caribúes plural
- caribús plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caribú?
- /kaɾiˈbu/
- [ka.ɾiˈβ̞u]
- [kaɾiˈβ̞u]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caribú
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caribú in Spanish?
caribú appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).