ablandamiento
Spanish, noun/ablandaˈmjento/
ablandamiento is spelled A-B-L-A-N-D-A-M-I-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 126,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ablandamiento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “softening (the process of making something soft)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de ablandar o de ablandarse”.
What does ablandamiento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesoftening (the process of making something soft)
- 2
masculinesoftening (the process of becoming soft)
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 ablandar o de ablandarse.
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 ablandamiento
- ablandamientos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ablandamiento?
- /ablandaˈmjento/
- [a.β̞lãn̪.d̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- [aβ̞lãn̪d̪aˈmjẽn̪t̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ablandamiento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ablandamiento in Spanish?
ablandamiento appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).