glifo
Spanish, noun/ˈɡlifo/
glifo is spelled G-L-I-F-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 79,842nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glifo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “glyph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Signo grabado o, por extensión, escrito o pintado”.
What does glifo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineglyph
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Signo grabado o, por extensión, escrito o pintado. 2. Representación gráfica de un carácter, de varios caracteres o de parte de un carácter y es el equivalente actual del tipo de imprenta. Un carácter es una unidad textual mientras que un glifo es una unidad gráfica. 3. Ranura vertical decorativa en los frisos dóricos.
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 glifo
- glifos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glifo?
- /ˈɡlifo/
- [ˈɡli.fo]
- [ˈglifo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glifo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glifo in Spanish?
glifo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).