maquinación
Spanish, noun/makinaˈθjon/
maquinación is spelled M-A-Q-U-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 106,207th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maquinación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “plot, machination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proyecto o asechanza artificiosa y oculta, dirigida regularmente a mal fin”.
What does maquinación mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplot, machination
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Proyecto o asechanza artificiosa y oculta, dirigida regularmente a mal fin.
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 maquinación
- maquinaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maquinación?
- /makinaˈθjon/
- [ma.ki.naˈθjõn]
- /makinaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maquinación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maquinación in Spanish?
maquinación appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).