cuentero
Spanish, noun/kwenˈteɾo/
cuentero is spelled C-U-E-N-T-E-R-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 109,730th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuentero is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “informer, tattler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cuentero mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinformer, tattler
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dice de quien inventa historias, o cuentos, con el fin de engañar.
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 cuentero
- cuenteros plural
- cuentera feminine
- cuenteras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuentero?
- /kwenˈteɾo/
- [kwẽn̪ˈt̪e.ɾo]
- [kwẽn̪ˈt̪eɾo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuentero in Spanish?
cuentero appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).