hipérbola
Spanish, noun/iˈpeɾbola/
hipérbola is spelled H-I-P-É-R-B-O-L-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 125,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hipérbola is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “hyperbola” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Curva en el plano definida como el lugar geométrico de los puntos tales que la diferencia de sus distancias a…”.
What does hipérbola mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehyperbola
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Curva en el plano definida como el lugar geométrico de los puntos tales que la diferencia de sus distancias a dos puntos fijos, llamados focos, es una constante. 2. Equivalentemente, sección cónica formada por la intersección de un cono con un plano que interseca la base del cono pero que no es tangente al cono.
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 hipérbola
- hipérbolas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hipérbola?
- /iˈpeɾbola/
- [iˈpeɾ.β̞o.la]
- [iˈpeɾβ̞ola]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hipérbola
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hipérbola in Spanish?
hipérbola appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).