triptongo
Spanish, noun
triptongo is spelled T-R-I-P-T-O-N-G-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written Spanish, the 301,588th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Triptongo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “triphthong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of triptongar. With an accent, triptongó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of triptongar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Conjunto de tres vocales que se pronuncian como una sola sílaba”.
What does triptongo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetriphthong
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of triptongar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of triptongar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Conjunto de tres vocales que se pronuncian como una sola sílaba.
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 triptongo
- triptongos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is triptongo in Spanish?
triptongo appears about once in every 76 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).