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horizontal

Spanish, adjective/oɾiθonˈtal/

horizontal is spelled H-O-R-I-Z-O-N-T-A-L (10 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,098th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Horizontal is a Spanish feminine adjective meaning “horizontal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Orientado de derecha a izquierda, o viceversa”.

What does horizontal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculinehorizontal

  2. 2

    femininemasculinelandscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Orientado de derecha a izquierda, o viceversa. 2. Se dice de algo que se encuentra en una posición tal que su dimensión mayor se encuentra paralela a la línea del horizonte, o al eje de abcisas.

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 horizontal

  • horizontales feminine masculine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce horizontal?

  • /oɾiθonˈtal/
  • [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al]
  • /oɾisonˈtal/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to horizontal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is horizontal in Spanish?

horizontal appears 8.5 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).

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