Similar words
preñez
preñez is more often used for the pregnancy of animals, or is colloquial and crude for humans; embarazo is the standard word for human pregnancy.
Similar in other languages
French
grossesse
grossesse is the French word for the same thing — both mean "pregnancy."
Portuguese
gravidez
gravidez is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "pregnancy."
Practice
1 What does embarazo mean?
pregnancy
2 Fill the gap: El ___ dura nueve meses.
Full sentence: El embarazo dura nueve meses. (Pregnancy lasts nine months.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches embarazo?
embarazo: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.