mates
Spanish, noun
mates is spelled M-A-T-E-S (5 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,466th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mates is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “maths, math (study)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of mate. With an accent, matés is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of matar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Matemáticas”.
What does mates mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininemaths, math (study)
adjective
- 1
plural of mate
noun
- 1
plural of mate
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of matar
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of matar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matemáticas.
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.
English words that translate to mates
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mates in Spanish?
mates appears 6.0 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).