palabrería
Spanish, noun/palabɾeˈɾia/
palabrería is spelled P-A-L-A-B-R-E-R-Í-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,911th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palabrería is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “claptrap (empty verbiage or nonsense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Gran cantidad de palabras innecesarias, sin aporte de ideas”.
What does palabrería mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclaptrap (empty verbiage or nonsense)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gran cantidad de palabras innecesarias, sin aporte de ideas.
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 palabrería
- palabrerías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palabrería?
- /palabɾeˈɾia/
- [pa.la.β̞ɾeˈɾi.a]
- [palaβ̞ɾeˈɾia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to palabrería
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palabrería in Spanish?
palabrería appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).