adopción
Spanish, noun/adobˈθjon/
adopción is spelled A-D-O-P-C-I-Ó-N (8 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,864th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adopción is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “adoption (the act of adopting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto legal mediante el cual se crea un vínculo de parentesco entre dos personas, que generalmente establece…”.
What does adopción mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadoption (the act of adopting)
- 2
feminineadoption (the state of being adopted)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto legal mediante el cual se crea un vínculo de parentesco entre dos personas, que generalmente establece una relación de paternidad y/o maternidad. 2. Acción o efecto de adoptar (en sus diferentes acepciones).
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 adopción
- adopciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adopción?
- /adobˈθjon/
- [a.ð̞oβ̞ˈθjõn]
- /adobˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adopción
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adopción in Spanish?
adopción appears 16 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).