veces
Spanish, preposition
veces is spelled V-E-C-E-S (5 letters) and appears 468 times per million words in written Spanish, the 175th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Veces is a Spanish preposition meaning “by, times (multiplication)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of vez. With an accent, vecés is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of vezar”.
What does veces mean in English?
preposition
- 1
by, times (multiplication)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of vez
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of vezar
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of vezar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ministerio, autoridad o jurisdicción que una persona ejerce supliendo a otra o representándola.
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 veces
- vezes alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is veces in Spanish?
veces appears 468 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).