silabeo
Spanish, noun
silabeo is spelled S-I-L-A-B-E-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish, the 195,910th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silabeo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “syllabification” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of silabear. With an accent, silabeó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of silabear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de silabear”.
What does silabeo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesyllabification
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of silabear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of silabear
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 silabear.
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 silabeo
- silabeos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is silabeo in Spanish?
silabeo appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).