querencia
Spanish, noun/keˈɾenθja/
querencia is spelled Q-U-E-R-E-N-C-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 75,210th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Querencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “longing, want” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción de querer”.
What does querencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelonging, want
- 2
femininehomesickness, nostalgia
- 3
femininethe homing instinct of an animal
- 4
femininethe bull's querencia
- 5
femininean animal's lair
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción de querer. 2. Tendencia a volver al lugar al que se suele vivir, a donde se acude con frecuencia o donde uno se crio. 3. Lugar que, por diversas razones, genera en uno la tendencia o gusto por acudir a él. 4. El lugar donde el animal asiste ordinariamente al pasto o donde se ha criado.
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 querencia
- querencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce querencia?
- /keˈɾenθja/
- [keˈɾẽn̟.θja]
- /keˈɾensja/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to querencia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is querencia in Spanish?
querencia appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).