hipoteca
Spanish, noun
hipoteca is spelled H-I-P-O-T-E-C-A (8 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,279th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hipoteca is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “mortgage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of hipotecar. With an accent, hipotecá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of hipotecar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Bien inmueble ofrecido como garantía de un crédito”.
What does hipoteca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemortgage
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of hipotecar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bien inmueble ofrecido como garantía de un crédito 2. Derecho real que afecta a una hipoteca₁ 3. Por extensión, crédito otorgado contra una hipoteca₁
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 hipoteca
- hipotecas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hipoteca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hipoteca in Spanish?
hipoteca appears 6.2 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).