cien
Spanish, number
cien is spelled C-I-E-N (4 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,605th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cien is a Spanish number meaning “one hundred (100)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cíen is a different word: “third-person plural present subjunctive”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Diez veces diez”.
What does cien mean in English?
number
- 1
one hundred (100)
verb
- 1
third-person plural present subjunctive
- 2
third-person plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
number: 1. Diez veces diez. 2. Que ocupa el centésimo lugar en una serie. 3. Que está cien veces. Se usa delante de un sustantivo, pero también puede ir solo. 4. Cantidad grande e indeterminada, pero no necesariamente cercana a la centena.
noun: 1. Signo o signos usados para representar al número que tiene cien unidades. 2. Nombre del número 100.
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.
English words that translate to cien
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cien in Spanish?
cien appears 32 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).