excavación
Spanish, noun/eɡskabaˈθjon/
excavación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “excavation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto y resultado de excavar. Perforación o extracción”.
What does excavación mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexcavation
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto y resultado de excavar. Perforación o extracción. 2. el proceso de búsqueda que trata de extraer de manera adecuada utensilios y restos de tiempos pasados.
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 excavación
- excavaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excavación?
- /eɡskabaˈθjon/
- [eɣ̞s.ka.β̞aˈθjõn]
- /eɡskabaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to excavación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is excavación in Spanish?
excavación appears 2.3 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).