cuestión
Spanish, noun/kwesˈtjon/
cuestión is spelled C-U-E-S-T-I-Ó-N (8 letters) and appears 91 times per million words in written Spanish, the 964th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuestión is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “matter, question, issue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pregunta que se hace o propone para averiguar la verdad de algo controvirtiéndolo”.
What does cuestión mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininematter, question, issue
Es cuestión de vida y muerte.
- 2
femininenonstandarda question; a sentence that asks for information
- 3
colloquialfemininething
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pregunta que se hace o propone para averiguar la verdad de algo controvirtiéndolo. 2. Riña, pendencia. 3. Cosa cualquiera de la que hay que ocuparse. 4. Cuestión de tormento.
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 cuestión
- cuestiones plural
- custión alternative Chile pronunciation-spelling
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuestión?
- /kwesˈtjon/
- [kwesˈt̪jõn]
- [kwest̪iˈõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cuestión
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuestión in Spanish?
cuestión appears 91 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).