contoneo
Spanish, noun
contoneo is spelled C-O-N-T-O-N-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 147,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contoneo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “swaying, shimmying, shaking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of contonear. With an accent, contoneó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of contonear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción de contonearse”.
What does contoneo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswaying, shimmying, shaking
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of contonear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of contonear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción de contonearse.
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 contoneo
- contoneos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is contoneo in Spanish?
contoneo appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).