acercamiento
Spanish, noun/aθeɾkaˈmjento/
acercamiento is spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-M-I-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,364th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acercamiento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “approach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de acercar o de acercarse”.
What does acercamiento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapproach
El Gobierno va a llevar a cabo el acercamiento de presos de ETA
- 2
masculinerapprochement, reconciliation
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 acercar o de acercarse. 2. Manera de abordar un tema o problema. 3. Acción o proceso de reducir las diferencias o el distanciamiento entre individuos o grupos en discordia.
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 acercamiento
- acercamientos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acercamiento?
- /aθeɾkaˈmjento/
- [a.θeɾ.kaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- /aseɾkaˈmjento/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acercamiento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acercamiento in Spanish?
acercamiento appears 8.1 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).