calefacción
Spanish, noun/kalefaɡˈθjon/
calefacción is spelled C-A-L-E-F-A-C-C-I-Ó-N (11 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,318th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calefacción is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “heating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de calentar o de calentarse”.
What does calefacción mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineheating
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de calentar o de calentarse. 2. Sistema técnico usado para calentar un edificio, un local, un apartamento, una casa, etc..
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 calefacción
- calefacciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calefacción?
- /kalefaɡˈθjon/
- [ka.le.faɣ̞ˈθjõn]
- /kalefaɡˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calefacción
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calefacción in Spanish?
calefacción appears 4.8 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).