repiqueteo
Spanish, noun
repiqueteo is spelled R-E-P-I-Q-U-E-T-E-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 123,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Repiqueteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “chiming, ringing, pealing (of bells)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of repiquetear. With an accent, repiqueteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of repiquetear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de repiquetear o de repiquetearse”.
What does repiqueteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechiming, ringing, pealing (of bells)
- 2
masculinetapping (on e.g. the table)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of repiquetear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of repiquetear
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 repiquetear o de repiquetearse.
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 repiqueteo
- repiqueteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to repiqueteo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is repiqueteo in Spanish?
repiqueteo appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).