What does “conspiranoico” mean in Spanish?

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B1 Spanish listening practice · Spanish from Spain · Picked for people who know some

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conspiranoico
Spanish slang blend word
“conspiracy nut” — a joking mashup of conspirativo + paranoico

Conspiranoico is a deliberate mashup — half conspirativo (“conspiratorial”), half paranoico (“paranoid”) — used to poke fun at someone who blames every event on a hidden plot. In this sketch, a guy watching a solar eclipse insists it’s actually “the government moving an artificial sun to hypnotize us all,” which is exactly the kind of claim the word was built to mock.

Spain’s Real Academia Española has logged the word as a “humorous acronym” of those two roots, and while it’s not yet in the formal dictionary, it’s everywhere in everyday speech and headlines about misinformation. The related noun is conspiranoia — the mindset itself, rather than the person who has it.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this B1 Spanish listening practice video?

88.5%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Spanish words
Most of the words in this video are common Spanish words.

How common in written Spanish

84.5%
Top 1,000
88.5%
Top 2,000
92.5%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Spanish

93.8%
Top 1,000
96.3%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in Spanish.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than B1. Here is what they mean.

conspiranoico
1×
Not in top 5,000
(slang) conspiracy theorist
hipnotizarnos
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Not in top 5,000
to hypnotize us
insensato
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Not in top 5,000
foolish; senseless
miedoso
1×
Not in top 5,000
fearful; timid
miréis
1×
Not in top 5,000
you look

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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