anécdota
Spanish, noun/aˈneɡdota/
anécdota is spelled A-N-É-C-D-O-T-A (8 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 11,540th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anécdota is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “anecdote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Narración de un suceso privado o secreto”.
What does anécdota mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanecdote
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Narración de un suceso privado o secreto. 2. Por extensión, narración de un suceso para entretenimiento o ejemplificación. 3. Por extensión, suceso trivial. 4. Estructura de los eventos de una narración.
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 anécdota
- anécdotas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anécdota?
- /aˈneɡdota/
- [aˈneɣ̞.ð̞o.t̪a]
- [aˈnekð̞ot̪a]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anécdota
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anécdota in Spanish?
anécdota appears 5.2 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).