punteo
Spanish, noun
punteo is spelled P-U-N-T-E-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 105,087th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “plucking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of puntear. With an accent, punteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of puntear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de puntear”.
What does punteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplucking
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of puntear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of puntear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de puntear.
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 punteo
- punteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is punteo in Spanish?
punteo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).