tejuelo
Spanish, noun/teˈxwelo/
tejuelo is spelled T-E-J-U-E-L-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish, the 268,459th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tejuelo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “small disk, small quoit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Etiqueta que se pone en los lomos de los libros en las bibliotecas y que refleja la signatura”.
What does tejuelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesmall disk, small quoit
- 2
masculinebackbone title label (in bookbinding)
- 3
masculinepillow block, pivot bearing (in mechanics)
- 4
masculinesole of a hoof (in veterinary medicine)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Etiqueta que se pone en los lomos de los libros en las bibliotecas y que refleja la signatura.
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 tejuelo
- tejuelos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tejuelo?
- /teˈxwelo/
- [t̪eˈxwe.lo]
- [t̪eˈxwelo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tejuelo in Spanish?
tejuelo appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).