geminación
Spanish, noun/xeminaˈθjon/
geminación is spelled G-E-M-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written Spanish, the 217,717th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geminación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “gemination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción de geminar, repetir, duplicar”.
What does geminación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegemination
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción de geminar, repetir, duplicar. 2. Proceso fonético de repetición de un fonema, una sílaba al pronunciar una palabra.
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 geminación
- geminaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce geminación?
- /xeminaˈθjon/
- [xe.mi.naˈθjõn]
- /xeminaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to geminación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is geminación in Spanish?
geminación appears about once in every 37 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).