What does “conspiranoico” mean in Spanish?
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B1 Spanish listening practice · Spanish from Spain · Picked for people who know some
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.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.