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frentón

Spanish, adjective/fɾenˈton/

frentón is a Spanish adjective meaning “person with a big forehead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “De frente amplia y despejada”.

What does frentón mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialperson with a big forehead.

  2. 2

    person from an Amerindian town whose members shaved the hair from the front of their heads.

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. De frente amplia y despejada. 2. Se dice de ciertos indígenas americanos, que se depilaban el cabello en la parte anterior de la cabeza.

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 frentón

  • frentona feminine
  • frentones masculine plural
  • frentonas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce frentón?

  • /fɾenˈton/
  • [fɾẽn̪ˈt̪õn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is frentón in Spanish?

frentón appears about once in every 42 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).