tentáculo
Spanish, noun/tenˈtakulo/
tentáculo is spelled T-E-N-T-Á-C-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 97,136th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tentáculo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “tentacle (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cualquiera de los apéndices móviles y blandos que tienen muchos moluscos, crustáceos, zoófitos, etc., y que…”.
What does tentáculo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetentacle (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cualquiera de los apéndices móviles y blandos que tienen muchos moluscos, crustáceos, zoófitos, etc., y que les sirven para tocar y para hacer presa.
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 tentáculo
- tentáculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tentáculo?
- /tenˈtakulo/
- [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪a.ku.lo]
- [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪akulo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tentáculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tentáculo in Spanish?
tentáculo appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).