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inopinado

Spanish, adjective/inopiˈnado/

inopinado is spelled I-N-O-P-I-N-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish, the 271,310th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inopinado is a Spanish adjective meaning “unwanted; unbidden; surprise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que se presenta o sucede de manera imprevista o inesperada”.

What does inopinado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unwanted; unbidden; surprise

    operativos inopinados

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que se presenta o sucede de manera imprevista o inesperada.

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 inopinado

  • inopinada feminine
  • inopinados masculine plural
  • inopinadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce inopinado?

  • /inopiˈnado/
  • [i.no.piˈna.ð̞o]
  • [ĩnopiˈnað̞o]

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

English words that translate to inopinado

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

How common is inopinado in Spanish?

inopinado appears about once in every 60 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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