tiranía
Spanish, noun/tiɾaˈnia/
tiranía is spelled T-I-R-A-N-Í-A (7 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,111th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tiranía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “tyranny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dominación ilegal”.
What does tiranía mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetyranny
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dominación ilegal. 2. Dominación injusta o despótica y caprichosa. 3. Opresión, violencia. 4. Poder o influencia irresistible de algunas cosas.
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 tiranía
- tiranías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tiranía?
- /tiɾaˈnia/
- [t̪i.ɾaˈni.a]
- [t̪iɾaˈnia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tiranía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tiranía in Spanish?
tiranía appears 4.9 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).