dovela
Spanish, noun
dovela is spelled D-O-V-E-L-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish, the 210,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dovela is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “voussoir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of dovelar. With an accent, dovelá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of dovelar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sillar labrado a manera de cuña con una cara convexa y otra cóncava usado para fabricar arcos y bóvedas”.
What does dovela mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevoussoir
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of dovelar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sillar labrado a manera de cuña con una cara convexa y otra cóncava usado para fabricar arcos y bóvedas.
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 dovela
- dovelas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dovela
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dovela in Spanish?
dovela appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).