seda
Spanish, noun
seda is spelled S-E-D-A (4 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,230th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seda is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “silk (fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of sedar. With an accent, sedá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of sedar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fibra proteínica, contínua y muy fina secretada por las orugas del lepidóptero Bombyx mori, el gusano de seda”.
What does seda mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesilk (fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod)
- 2
femininesilk (fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers)
- 3
femininethin string (long, very thin, and flexible structure made from threads twisted together)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of sedar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fibra proteínica, contínua y muy fina secretada por las orugas del lepidóptero Bombyx mori, el gusano de seda. 2. Por extensión, fibra similar producida por otras orugas o algunos moluscos. 3. Hilo producido con esta fibra. 4. Tejido de este hilo.
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 seda
- sedas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to seda
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seda in Spanish?
seda appears 8.3 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).