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vacilación

Spanish, noun/baθilaˈθjon/

vacilación is spelled V-A-C-I-L-A-C-I-Ó-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 58,329th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vacilación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “vacillation, perplexity, unresolve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de vacilar”.

What does vacilación mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininevacillation, perplexity, unresolve

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 vacilar. 2. Perplejidad, irresolución.

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 vacilación

  • vacilaciones plural

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

How do you pronounce vacilación?

  • /baθilaˈθjon/
  • [ba.θi.laˈθjõn]
  • /basilaˈsjon/

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

English words that translate to vacilación

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

How common is vacilación in Spanish?

vacilación appears about once in every 2 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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