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pelo

Spanish, noun

pelo is spelled P-E-L-O (4 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,314th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hair (a single hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pelar. With an accent, peló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of pelar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Filamento de queratina que crece en la piel de humanos y animales, cubren parte de la cabeza u otras partes…”.

What does pelo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehair (a single hair)

  2. 2

    masculinehair (all hair on the head)

  3. 3

    masculinefur

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of pelar

verb

as peló
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of pelar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Filamento de queratina que crece en la piel de humanos y animales, cubren parte de la cabeza u otras partes del cuerpo, tiene una raíz bulbosa que nace en los poros de la piel. 2. Conjunto o masa de estos filamentos. 3. Este filamento cuando pertenece a los que cubren la cabeza, por oposición a la barba del rostro y el vello del resto del cuerpo. 4. Filamento vegetal como el que cubre algunas frutas, tallos u hojas.

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 pelo

  • pelos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pelo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pelo in Spanish?

pelo appears 66 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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