ovillo
Spanish, noun
ovillo is spelled O-V-I-L-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 65,931st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ovillo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “ball (of wool)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of ovillar. With an accent, ovilló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of ovillar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Bola que se forma devanando hilo o una cuerda”.
What does ovillo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineball (of wool)
- 2
masculineball (of things tied up)
- 3
masculinepile, bunch
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of ovillar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of ovillar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bola que se forma devanando hilo o una cuerda. 2. Cualquier cosa enredada y de forma redonda. 3. Montón confuso de cosas, sin ningún tipo de trabazón ni arte.
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 ovillo
- ovillos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ovillo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ovillo in Spanish?
ovillo appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).