pabilo
Spanish, noun
pabilo is spelled P-A-B-I-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish, the 172,602nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pabilo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “candlewick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pábilo is a different word: “alternative form of pabilo”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mecha de la vela”.
What does pabilo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecandlewick
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of pabilo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mecha de la vela. 2. Hilo grueso y laxo de algodón.
noun: 1. Mecha de la vela. 2. Hilo grueso y laxo de algodón. Se utiliza para hacer tejidos gruesos y resistentes, para la elaboración de hamacas, alpargatas, manteles o cubrecamas. 3. Hilo que se utiliza para calafatear.
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 pabilo
- pabilos plural
- pábilo alternative
- pavíl alternative
- pábilos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pabilo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pabilo in Spanish?
pabilo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).