percebe
Spanish, noun/peɾˈθebe/
percebe is spelled P-E-R-C-E-B-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 116,020th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Percebe is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “barnacle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Pollicipes pollicipes) Crustáceo cirrípedo cuyo caparazón está compuesto por cinco valvas y su pedúnculo es…”.
What does percebe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebarnacle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Pollicipes pollicipes) Crustáceo cirrípedo cuyo caparazón está compuesto por cinco valvas y su pedúnculo es carnoso comestible, aunque con este se adhiere a las rocas. Como plato es muy apreciado. 2. Se dice de la persona necia, incapaz o desconocedora.
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 percebe
- percebes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce percebe?
- /peɾˈθebe/
- [peɾˈθe.β̞e]
- /peɾˈsebe/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to percebe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is percebe in Spanish?
percebe appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).