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restricción

Spanish, noun/restɾiɡˈθjon/

restricción is spelled R-E-S-T-R-I-C-C-I-Ó-N (11 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,258th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Restricción is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “restriction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de restringir”.

What does restricción mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininerestriction

  2. 2

    feminineconstraint

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción y efecto de restringir. 2. En especial, la que se impone a la distribución y venta de bienes de consumo en el mercado en ocasión de carestía. 3. Reducción del dominio de una función. 4. Corte de una cadena de ácido desoxirribonucleico a la altura de una secuencia característica de nucleótidos para evitar la incorporación de material genético exógeno.

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 restricción

  • restricciones plural

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

How do you pronounce restricción?

  • /restɾiɡˈθjon/
  • [res.t̪ɾiɣ̞ˈθjõn]
  • /restɾiɡˈsjon/

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

English words that translate to restricción

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

How common is restricción in Spanish?

restricción appears 7.1 times per 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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