tabique
Spanish, noun
tabique is spelled T-A-B-I-Q-U-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 40,167th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tabique is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “thin wall, or partition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tabicar. With an accent, tabiqué is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of tabicar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pared ligera que separa dos habitaciones o dos espacios”.
What does tabique mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethin wall, or partition
- 2
masculineseptum
- 3
Mexicomasculinebrick
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of tabicar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pared ligera que separa dos habitaciones o dos espacios. 2. Tejido delgado que separa dos cavidades en el cuerpo. 3. Ladrillo de caras cuadradas.
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 tabique
- tabiques plural
- tabicón augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tabique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tabique in Spanish?
tabique appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).