milpiés
Spanish, noun/milˈpjes/
milpiés is spelled M-I-L-P-I-É-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish, the 210,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Milpiés is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “millipede” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Especie de miriápodos que se caracterizan por tener dos pares de patas articuladas en la mayoría de sus…”.
What does milpiés mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemillipede
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Especie de miriápodos que se caracterizan por tener dos pares de patas articuladas en la mayoría de sus segmentos corporales dobles, o diplosegmentos. Tienen entre 34 y 400 patas.
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.
How do you pronounce milpiés?
- /milˈpjes/
- [milˈpjes]
- [milpiˈes]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to milpiés
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is milpiés in Spanish?
milpiés appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).