vara
Spanish, noun
vara is spelled V-A-R-A (4 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,466th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vara is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “rod, pole (a long thin stick)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of varo. With an accent, vará is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of varar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Rama fina y larga como las que se usan para golpear o para hacer cercos”.
What does vara mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerod, pole (a long thin stick)
- 2
femininerod (a thin cane or branch)
- 3
femininerod (a staff of office)
- 4
femininelance
- 5
femininevara, a Spanish rod or yard (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 83.7 cm)
- 6
femininevara, a square vara (a traditional unit of area equivalent to about 0.7 m²)
- 7
feminineyardstick (a straight-edge tool for measuring length)
- 8
feminineyardstick (a standard used to establish a baseline for measurements or comparisons)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of varo
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of varar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rama fina y larga como las que se usan para golpear o para hacer cercos. 2. Bastón de mando. 3. Antigua medida de longitud equivalente a ente 70 y 91 centímetros. 4. En los carros y carruajes, palo que sobresale por la parte delantera y al que se enganchan las carrocerías.
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 vara
- varas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vara
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vara in Spanish?
vara appears 6.0 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).