calumnia
Spanish, noun
calumnia is spelled C-A-L-U-M-N-I-A (8 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20,906th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calumnia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “slander, calumny, aspersion, libel, defamation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of calumniar. With an accent, calumniá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of calumniar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mentira que se divulga para dañar”.
What does calumnia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineslander, calumny, aspersion, libel, defamation
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of calumniar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mentira que se divulga para dañar. 2. Imputación de un crimen con objeto de causar daño a alguien y con conciencia de falsedad de hechas acusaciones.
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 calumnia
- calumnias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to calumnia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calumnia in Spanish?
calumnia appears 2.2 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).