deriva
Spanish, noun
deriva is spelled D-E-R-I-V-A (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,498th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deriva is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “drift (course or direction along which anything is driven; setting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of derivar. With an accent, derivá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of derivar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desvío de una embarcación con respecto al rumbo trazado debido a la corriente”.
What does deriva mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedrift (course or direction along which anything is driven; setting)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of derivar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Desvío de una embarcación con respecto al rumbo trazado debido a la corriente. 2. Acción o efecto de derivar. 3. Curso realizado sin rumbo fijo, o en uno que al locutor le parece negativo.
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 deriva
- derivas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to deriva
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deriva in Spanish?
deriva appears 11 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).