habla
Spanish, noun
habla is spelled H-A-B-L-A (5 letters) and appears 174 times per million words in written Spanish, the 481st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habla is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “speech (faculty of speech)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an inflection of hablar. With an accent, hablá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of hablar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Capacidad de comunicarse mediante el lenguaje oral”.
What does habla mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespeech (faculty of speech)
- 2
femininespeaking (action)
verb
- 1
inflection of hablar
Habla.
- 2
third-person singular present indicative
- 3
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of hablar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Capacidad de comunicarse mediante el lenguaje oral. 2. Uso particular de la lengua. 3. Acción o efecto de hablar. 4. Variedad local de un idioma.
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 habla
- hablas plural
- fabla alternative archaic
- fábula alternative archaic
- faula alternative archaic
- haula alternative dialectal
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to habla
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habla in Spanish?
habla appears 174 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).