ceceo
Spanish, noun
ceceo is spelled C-E-C-E-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 103,935th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ceceo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “lisp, lisping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cecear. With an accent, ceceó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cecear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de cecear”.
What does ceceo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelisp, lisping
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cecear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cecear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de cecear.
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 ceceo
- ceceos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ceceo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ceceo in Spanish?
ceceo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).