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soviet

Spanish, noun

soviet is spelled S-O-V-I-E-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 49,460th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soviet is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “soviet (an assembly, convocation, or council of workers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sóviet is a different word: “soviet (an assembly, convocation, or council of workers)”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de sóviet”.

What does soviet mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesoviet (an assembly, convocation, or council of workers)

noun

as sóviet
  1. 1

    masculinesoviet (an assembly, convocation, or council of workers)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Organización autónoma de trabajadores, especialmente obreros, formada en las postrimerías del Imperio Ruso como medio de proporcionar cohesión a los movimientos obreros en un régimen de democracia directa. Su modelo fue empleado como base para la elaboración del sistema soviético de gobierno en la URSS y en China. 2. Cualquier cuerpo formado por delegados electos en un sóviet que a su vez constituyen un sóviet de mayor autoridad. 3. Figurativamente, cualquier órgano o corporación en que la distribución y planificación se realiza desde las bases hacia arriba.

noun: 1. Variante de sóviet.

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 soviet

  • soviets plural
  • sóviet alternative
  • sóviets plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to soviet

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is soviet in Spanish?

soviet appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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