cercanías
Spanish, noun/θeɾkaˈnias/
cercanías is spelled C-E-R-C-A-N-Í-A-S (9 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 11,921st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cercanías is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “commuter train” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of cercanía. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tren que une dos poblaciones cercanas, parando en todas las estaciones intermedias”.
What does cercanías mean in English?
noun
- 1
Spainmasculinecommuter train
- 2
Spainmasculinea commuter rail network
noun
- 1
feminineplural of cercanía
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tren que une dos poblaciones cercanas, parando en todas las estaciones intermedias.
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.
How do you pronounce cercanías?
- /θeɾkaˈnias/
- [θeɾ.kaˈni.as]
- /seɾkaˈnias/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cercanías
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cercanías in Spanish?
cercanías appears 5.0 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).