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sóleo

Spanish, noun

sóleo is spelled S-Ó-L-E-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 148,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sóleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “soleus (muscle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, soleo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of solear”. With an accent, soleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of solear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Músculo de la pantorrilla unido a los gemelos por su parte inferior para formar el tendón de Aquiles”.

What does sóleo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesoleus (muscle)

verb

as soleo
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of solear

verb

as soleó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of solear

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Músculo de la pantorrilla unido a los gemelos por su parte inferior para formar el tendón de Aquiles.

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 sóleo

  • sóleos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to sóleo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sóleo in Spanish?

sóleo appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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