beca
Spanish, noun
beca is spelled B-E-C-A (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,594th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beca is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “grant, stipend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of becar. With an accent, becá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of becar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ayuda financiera, proveniente de fondos privados o públicos, por méritos académicos otorgada por la duración…”.
What does beca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrant, stipend
- 2
femininescholarship
una beca Erasmus
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of becar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ayuda financiera, proveniente de fondos privados o públicos, por méritos académicos otorgada por la duración de un curso o de un periodo de estudios.
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 beca
- becas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beca in Spanish?
beca appears 13 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).