tamboreo
Spanish, noun
tamboreo is spelled T-A-M-B-O-R-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written Spanish, the 308,039th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tamboreo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “drumming” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tamborear. With an accent, tamboreó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tamborear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto y efecto de tamborear (hacer ruido con los dedos imitando el sonido del tambor)”.
What does tamboreo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrumming
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tamborear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of tamborear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto y efecto de tamborear (hacer ruido con los dedos imitando el sonido del tambor).
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 tamboreo
- tamboreos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tamboreo in Spanish?
tamboreo appears about once in every 79 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).