acontecimiento
Spanish, noun/akonteθiˈmjento/
acontecimiento is spelled A-C-O-N-T-E-C-I-M-I-E-N-T-O (14 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acontecimiento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “event, development, occurrence, happening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hecho o suceso, principalmente si es importante”.
What does acontecimiento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineevent, development, occurrence, happening
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hecho o suceso, principalmente si es importante.
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 acontecimiento
- acontecimientos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acontecimiento?
- /akonteθiˈmjento/
- [a.kõn̪.t̪e.θiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- /akontesiˈmjento/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acontecimiento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acontecimiento in Spanish?
acontecimiento appears 10 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).