zarandeo
Spanish, noun
zarandeo is spelled Z-A-R-A-N-D-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish, the 144,191st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zarandeo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “sift; sifting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of zarandear. With an accent, zarandeó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of zarandear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de zarandear o de zarandearse”.
What does zarandeo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesift; sifting
- 2
masculineshake; shaking
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of zarandear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of zarandear
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 zarandear o de zarandearse.
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 zarandeo
- zarandeos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zarandeo in Spanish?
zarandeo appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).