palabro
Spanish, noun/paˈlabɾo/
palabro is spelled P-A-L-A-B-R-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 125,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palabro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “swear word” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Palabra muy extraña o rebuscada, o una deformación de una palabra existente”.
What does palabro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswear word
- 2
masculinenonsense word; nonce word
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Palabra muy extraña o rebuscada, o una deformación de una palabra existente. 2. Palabrota.
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 palabro
- palabros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palabro?
- /paˈlabɾo/
- [paˈla.β̞ɾo]
- [paˈlaβ̞ɾo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is palabro in Spanish?
palabro appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).