chapucería
Spanish, noun/t͡ʃapuθeˈɾia/
chapucería is spelled C-H-A-P-U-C-E-R-Í-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Spanish, the 260,274th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapucería is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “shoddiness, crudeness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tosquedad, imperfección en cualquiera artefacto”.
What does chapucería mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshoddiness, crudeness
- 2
femininedeception, hoax
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tosquedad, imperfección en cualquiera artefacto. 2. Obra hecha sin arte ni pulidez. 3. Embuste, fraude.
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 chapucería
- chapucerías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapucería?
- /t͡ʃapuθeˈɾia/
- [t͡ʃa.pu.θeˈɾi.a]
- /t͡ʃapuseˈɾia/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chapucería
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chapucería in Spanish?
chapucería appears about once in every 55 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).