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cautividad

Spanish, noun/kautibiˈdad/

cautividad is spelled C-A-U-T-I-V-I-D-A-D (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 39,106th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cautividad is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “captivity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Condición de quien se encuentra cautivo”.

What does cautividad mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecaptivity

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Condición de quien se encuentra cautivo.

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 cautividad

  • cautividades plural
  • captividad alternative archaic

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cautividad?

  • /kautibiˈdad/
  • [kau̯.t̪i.β̞iˈð̞að̞]
  • [kawt̪iβ̞iˈð̞að̞]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cautividad

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cautividad in Spanish?

cautividad appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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