clavicémbalo
Spanish, noun/klabiˈθembalo/
clavicémbalo is spelled C-L-A-V-I-C-É-M-B-A-L-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish, the 182,048th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clavicémbalo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “harpsichord” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento musical de cuerda pulsada, es decir, en donde cada tecla hace que una púa pulse la cuerda…”.
What does clavicémbalo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineharpsichord
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento musical de cuerda pulsada, es decir, en donde cada tecla hace que una púa pulse la cuerda correspondiente, produciendo un tono brillante y nítido similar al de un arpa.
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 clavicémbalo
- clavicémbalos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clavicémbalo?
- /klabiˈθembalo/
- [kla.β̞iˈθẽm.ba.lo]
- /klabiˈsembalo/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clavicémbalo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clavicémbalo in Spanish?
clavicémbalo appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).