sobras
Spanish, noun
sobras is spelled S-O-B-R-A-S (6 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 18,761st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobras is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “plural of sobra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sobrás is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present indicative of sobrar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Parte que queda de algo, especialmente comida, después de usarlo o consumirlo”.
What does sobras mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of sobra
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of sobrar
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present indicative of sobrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Parte que queda de algo, especialmente comida, después de usarlo o consumirlo. 2. Estipendio periódico que recibían los soldados, en particular el diario o semanal, generalmente modesto.
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 sobras
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobras in Spanish?
sobras appears 2.6 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).