cumpleaños
Spanish, noun/kumpleˈaɲos/
cumpleaños is spelled C-U-M-P-L-E-A-Ñ-O-S (10 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,901st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cumpleaños is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “birthday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fecha en que cae el aniversario del nacimiento de alguien”.
What does cumpleaños mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebirthday
Hoy es mi cumpleaños.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fecha en que cae el aniversario del nacimiento de alguien. 2. Fiesta o reunión en que se celebra un cumpleaños.
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 cumpleaños?
- /kumpleˈaɲos/
- [kũm.pleˈa.ɲos]
- /kumˈpljaɲos/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cumpleaños
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cumpleaños in Spanish?
cumpleaños appears 46 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).