tableteo
Spanish, noun
tableteo is spelled T-A-B-L-E-T-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Spanish, the 298,369th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tableteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “rattle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tabletear. With an accent, tableteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tabletear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de tabletear (hacer ruido chocando tablas o tabletas, o uno semejante a ese)”.
What does tableteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerattle
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tabletear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of tabletear
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 tabletear (hacer ruido chocando tablas o tabletas, o uno semejante a ese).
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 tableteo
- tableteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tableteo in Spanish?
tableteo appears about once in every 74 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).