infundio
Spanish, noun
infundio is spelled I-N-F-U-N-D-I-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 97,136th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infundio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “lie (especially malicious), canard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, infundió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of infundir”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mentira, información falsa o sin fundamento que se difunde generalmente para perjudicar a alguien”.
What does infundio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelie (especially malicious), canard
lanzar infundios
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of infundir
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mentira, información falsa o sin fundamento que se difunde generalmente para perjudicar a alguien.
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 infundio
- infundios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to infundio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is infundio in Spanish?
infundio appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).