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imbricado

Spanish, adjective/imbɾiˈkado/

imbricado is spelled I-M-B-R-I-C-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imbricado is a Spanish adjective meaning “nested” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of imbricar.

What does imbricado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    nested

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of imbricar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Participio de imbricar.

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 imbricado

  • imbricada feminine
  • imbricados masculine plural
  • imbricadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce imbricado?

  • /imbɾiˈkado/
  • [ĩm.bɾiˈka.ð̞o]
  • [ĩmbɾiˈkað̞o]

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

English words that translate to imbricado

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

How common is imbricado in Spanish?

imbricado appears about once in every 24 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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