pataleo
Spanish, noun
pataleo is spelled P-A-T-A-L-E-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 100,441st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pataleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “stamp, stamping, stomp, stomping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of patalear. With an accent, pataleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of patalear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto de agitar las patas o piernas con movimientos violentos”.
What does pataleo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestamp, stamping, stomp, stomping
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of patalear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of patalear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto de agitar las patas o piernas con movimientos violentos. 2. Ruido que producen las patas al impactar contra el suelo 3. Figuradamente, reclamación airada pero inútil
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 pataleo
- pataleos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pataleo in Spanish?
pataleo appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).