rabel
Spanish, noun/raˈbel/
rabel is spelled R-A-B-E-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 110,969th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabel is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “rebec” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento músico pastoril, pequeño, de hechura como la del laúd y compuesto de tres cuerdas solas, que se…”.
What does rabel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerebec
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento músico pastoril, pequeño, de hechura como la del laúd y compuesto de tres cuerdas solas, que se tocan con arco y tienen un sonido muy agudo. 2. Instrumento músico que consiste en una caña y un bordón, entre los cuales se coloca una vejiga llena de aire. Se hace sonar la cuerda o bordón con un arco de cerdas, y sirve para juguete de los niños.
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 rabel
- rabeles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabel?
- /raˈbel/
- [raˈβ̞el]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rabel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rabel in Spanish?
rabel appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).