quejío
Spanish, noun/keˈxio/
quejío is spelled Q-U-E-J-Í-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written Spanish, the 217,717th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quejío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “grief-stricken cry, normally of ay, during a flamenco song” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does quejío mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegrief-stricken cry, normally of ay, during a flamenco song
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce quejío?
- /keˈxio/
- [keˈxi.o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quejío in Spanish?
quejío appears about once in every 37 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).