cercanía
Spanish, noun/θeɾkaˈnia/
cercanía is spelled C-E-R-C-A-N-Í-A (8 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,952nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cercanía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “proximity, vicinity, closeness, nearness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Condición o carácter de cercano”.
What does cercanía mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineproximity, vicinity, closeness, nearness
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Condición o carácter de cercano. 2. Inmediaciones a una población.
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 cercanía
- cercanías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cercanía?
- /θeɾkaˈnia/
- [θeɾ.kaˈni.a]
- /seɾkaˈnia/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cercanía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cercanía in Spanish?
cercanía appears 6.5 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).