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ruina

Spanish, noun

ruina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of ruinar. With an accent, ruiná is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of ruinar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proceso o acción de destruirse”.

What does ruina mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)

  2. 2

    femininedecline, downfall

  3. 3

    feminineruins

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as ruiná
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of ruinar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Proceso o acción de destruirse. 2. Pérdida total o casi total de la riqueza material o moral. 3. Decadencia de una persona o grupo humano. 4. Causa de decadencia o pérdida.

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 ruina

  • ruinas plural

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

English words that translate to ruina

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

How common is ruina in Spanish?

ruina appears 6.8 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).