embeleco
Spanish, noun
embeleco is spelled E-M-B-E-L-E-C-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written Spanish, the 241,869th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embeleco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “deceit, fraud” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of embelecar. With an accent, embelecó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of embelecar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Engaño, mentira”.
What does embeleco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedeceit, fraud
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of embelecar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of embelecar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Engaño, mentira.
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 embeleco
- embelecos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to embeleco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embeleco in Spanish?
embeleco appears about once in every 47 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).