v
Spanish, letter
v is spelled V (one letter) and appears 107 times per million words in written Spanish, the 823rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). V is a Spanish letter meaning “The twenty-third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, V is a different word: “The twenty-third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin…”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Vigesimotercera letra del alfabeto español y decimoctava consonante. Su nombre es uve, ve corta o ve baja”.
What does v mean in English?
letter
- 1
The twenty-third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
letter
- 1
The twenty-third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
letter: 1. Vigesimotercera letra del alfabeto español y decimoctava consonante. Su nombre es uve, ve corta o ve baja.
letter: 1. Vigesimotercera letra del abecedario español. Su nombre es uve (también llamada "ve" pequeña, chica, baja o corta; "ve" labiodental) y representa en general un fonema consonante oclusivo bilabial sonoro (/b/).
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 v
- V uppercase
- v lowercase
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is v in Spanish?
v appears 107 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).