acicular
Spanish, adjective/aθikuˈlaɾ/
acicular is spelled A-C-I-C-U-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish, the 257,601st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acicular is a Spanish feminine adjective meaning “acicular” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Con figura o forma de aguja”.
What does acicular mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineacicular
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Con figura o forma de aguja. 2. Se dice de la textura de los cuerpos formados por fibras muy delgadas.
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 acicular
- aciculares feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acicular?
- /aθikuˈlaɾ/
- [a.θi.kuˈlaɾ]
- /asikuˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acicular in Spanish?
acicular appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).