ascendencia
Spanish, noun/asθenˈdenθja/
ascendencia is spelled A-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-C-I-A (11 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,858th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ascendencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “ancestry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Serie de ascendientes (padre, madre, abuelos) de alguien”.
What does ascendencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineancestry
- 2
feminineascendancy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Serie de ascendientes (padre, madre, abuelos) de alguien.
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 ascendencia
- ascendencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ascendencia?
- /asθenˈdenθja/
- [as.θẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̟.θja]
- /asenˈdensja/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ascendencia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ascendencia in Spanish?
ascendencia appears 4.1 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).