titubeo
Spanish, noun
titubeo is spelled T-I-T-U-B-E-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 86,552nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Titubeo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hesitation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of titubear. With an accent, titubeó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of titubear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de titubear”.
What does titubeo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehesitation
- 2
masculinestutter
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of titubear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of titubear
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 titubear.
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 titubeo
- titubeos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to titubeo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is titubeo in Spanish?
titubeo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).