serpenteo
Spanish, noun
serpenteo is spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-E-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Spanish, the 244,405th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Serpenteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “slithering; meandering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of serpentear. With an accent, serpenteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of serpentear”.
What does serpenteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslithering; meandering
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of serpentear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of serpentear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of serpenteo
- serpenteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to serpenteo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is serpenteo in Spanish?
serpenteo appears about once in every 48 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).