velas
Spanish, noun
velas is spelled V-E-L-A-S (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,498th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Velas is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “plural of vela” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, velás is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present indicative of velar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moco que cuelga de las narices de un niño”.
What does velas mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of vela
verb
- 1
second-person singular imperative of ir combined with las
- 2
second-person singular present indicative of velar
- 3
second-person singular imperative combined with las
- 4
second-person singular voseo imperative combined with las
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present indicative of velar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Moco que cuelga de las narices de un niño.
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.
How common is velas in Spanish?
velas appears 11 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).