acerca
Spanish, adverb
acerca is spelled A-C-E-R-C-A (6 letters) and appears 126 times per million words in written Spanish, the 683rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acerca is a Spanish adverb meaning “only used in acerca de (“about; concerning”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of acercar. With an accent, acercá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of acercar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cerca de, próximo, adyacente”.
What does acerca mean in English?
adverb
- 1
archaicadjacent
- 2
only used in acerca de (“about; concerning”)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of acercar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Cerca de, próximo, adyacente.
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.
How common is acerca in Spanish?
acerca appears 126 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).