sustancia
Spanish, noun
sustancia is spelled S-U-S-T-A-N-C-I-A (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,498th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustancia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “substance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of sustanciar. With an accent, sustanciá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of sustanciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Materia que compone una cosa, en oposición a su forma”.
What does sustancia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesubstance
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of sustanciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Materia que compone una cosa, en oposición a su forma. 2. Materia de composición química definida. 3. El tema del pensamiento, del discurso, del estudio, etc. 4. Carácter o calidad de substancial o sólidez.
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 sustancia
- sustancias plural
- substancia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sustancia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sustancia in Spanish?
sustancia appears 11 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).