toqueteo
Spanish, noun
toqueteo is spelled T-O-Q-U-E-T-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 113,469th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toqueteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “touching; fiddling; groping; fingering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of toquetear. With an accent, toqueteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of toquetear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de toquetear”.
What does toqueteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetouching; fiddling; groping; fingering
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of toquetear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of toquetear
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 toquetear.
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 toqueteo
- toqueteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is toqueteo in Spanish?
toqueteo appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).