chisporroteo
Spanish, noun
chisporroteo is spelled C-H-I-S-P-O-R-R-O-T-E-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 152,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chisporroteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “spark (of a fire or electrical wire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of chisporrotear. With an accent, chisporroteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of chisporrotear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de chisporrotear”.
What does chisporroteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespark (of a fire or electrical wire)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of chisporrotear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of chisporrotear
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 chisporrotear.
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 chisporroteo
- chisporroteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chisporroteo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chisporroteo in Spanish?
chisporroteo appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).