palpo
Spanish, noun
palpo is spelled P-A-L-P-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish, the 155,407th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palpo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “palp; palpus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of palpar. With an accent, palpó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of palpar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cada uno de los apéndices articulados y movibles que en forma y número diferentes tienen los artrópodos…”.
What does palpo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepalp; palpus
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of palpar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of palpar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cada uno de los apéndices articulados y movibles que en forma y número diferentes tienen los artrópodos alrededor de la boca para palpar y sujetar lo que comen.
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 palpo
- palpos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is palpo in Spanish?
palpo appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).