rompehielos
Spanish, noun/rompeˈjelos/
rompehielos is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “icebreaker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Barco especial diseñado para moverse y navegar a través de mares y ríos cubiertos por el hielo”.
What does rompehielos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineicebreaker
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Barco especial diseñado para moverse y navegar a través de mares y ríos cubiertos por el hielo.
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.
How do you pronounce rompehielos?
- /rompeˈjelos/
- [rõm.peˈje.los]
- [rõmpeˈjelos]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rompehielos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rompehielos in Spanish?
rompehielos appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).