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Most Common Spanish Words

Guess the 100 most common words in Spanish.
Variations of the same word are grouped together
For verbs, guess the infinitive form
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Last updated: September 6, 2013
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First submittedSeptember 6, 2013
Times taken24,340
Average score31.0%
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Word
el / la
de
que
y
a
en
un
ser
se
no
haber
por
con
Word
su
para
como
estar
tener
le
lo
lo
todo
pero
más
hacer
o
Word
poder
decir
este
ir
otro
ese
la
si
me
ya
ver
porque
dar
Word
cuando
él
muy
sin
vez
mucho
saber
qué
sobre
mi
alguno
mismo
yo
Word
también
hasta
año
dos
querer
entre
así
primero
desde
grande
eso
ni
Word
nos
llegar
pasar
tiempo
ella
día
uno
bien
poco
deber
entonces
Word
poner
cosa
tanto
hombre
parecer
nuestro
tan
donde
ahora
parte
después
vida
Word
quedar
siempre
creer
hablar
llevar
dejar
nada
cada
seguir
menos
nuevo
encontrar
+5
Level 82
Dec 9, 2013
Donde esta la biblioteca? Also... is "tu" really not on here? How is that possible?
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Level 82
Dec 9, 2013
finished with 78th percentile. Not terrible I guess considering I haven't had any reason to practice my Spanish in about 10 years.
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Level 20
Mar 8, 2018
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Level 50
May 8, 2022
I’m about to try that right now, thanks for the advice, I will gladly use it, a my head
+4
Level 78
Dec 9, 2013
As a fan of Bumblebee Man, I'm disappointed that "ay, caramba" did not make the list.
+1
Level 66
Aug 25, 2017
As a fan of bart simpson, I agree
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Level 70
Dec 6, 2018
As a fan of the Simpsons I can say: ¡Ay, ay, ay, el mundo es loco!
+2
Level 40
Dec 9, 2013
55 guessed for a 96.8 percentile.....not bad considering Spanish is my native language.....wait...ouch! This is hard!
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Level 92
Mar 10, 2014
Don't worry, that's about as good as I did the first time taking the english version of this test. It's hard to think of what words are most common in general.
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Level 45
Dec 9, 2013
I got 61, which doesn't seem too bad for a non-speaker--I had Spanish in high school, but was never fluent and haven't used it at all in the dozen or so years since then.
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Level 55
Aug 15, 2014
Man, I'm a native Spanish speaker, and did better in "Most common words in English" than on this one...
+4
Level 42
Jun 1, 2016
El inglés tiene, con diferencia, muchísimo menos vocabulario que el español, quizás sea por eso jajaja A mi también me fue mejor el quiz en inglés
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Level 80
Oct 15, 2021
¿En serio?
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Level 76
Oct 28, 2014
"Lo" appears twice.
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Level 74
Dec 14, 2014
That's intentional. Lo is counted in two forms there
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Level 22
May 7, 2016
Why isn't usted on here?
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Level 42
Jun 1, 2016
we don't use i that much, only in very formal scenarios. It's more extended in Latin America
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Level 58
Sep 21, 2023
I'm argentinean and at least here we don't usually use "usted", maybe you're talking about "ustedes".
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Level 82
Aug 12, 2016
I'm not very good at these. I did rather poorly at the English version too. The problem with the most common words is you use them so unthinkingly. I was kicking myself when I saw the obvious ones I'd missed.
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Level 20
Jan 26, 2018
How is "Hola" not here!
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Level 68
Apr 16, 2020
Two years late on this one, but it's probably because all these studies about the most common words base themselves on written texts (most of them not written in such a way that you could address someone directly by saying "Hello"). It would be interesting to see what different words could come up if you were to make this study with the most spoken words in a language (I don't know how you could measure that, but it would be really cool).
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Level 61
Aug 25, 2020
if it was spoken Spanish there would be some words in it like "jo-er" - probably in the top 10!
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Level 68
Mar 2, 2018
I speak English and I did better on this one, lol
+1
Level 66
Jan 16, 2019
No sombrero, cerveza, tequila, fajjito, queso, ok I'll stop, now Im hungry...

The most guessed are one and two letter words. That is a good reflections of how I did. Most were random guesses and happy accidents... (at one point just tries two letter combos.. bo bi ba be, lo, li la le...)

surprisingly how low nada is btw, One of the words many people DO know even if they dont really know spanish. That is nearly the only word I know (besides the ones written above, food(stuff) that hails from spanish speaking countries) ) also know si, nina, yo, that about it...

Though if i see it written I can guess a lot since I do know a little bit of french, so if there is an resemblence I can guess. but not if i have to produce the spanish myself

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Level 20
Feb 17, 2020
only got 49 correct not bad considering i'm in 8th grade
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Level 70
Jun 22, 2020
49 and i'm native lol
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Level 65
Jun 23, 2022
de verdad? donde esta tu, usted, demasiado, aqui, quien y solo? 41/100
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Level 63
Sep 15, 2023
How is encontrar here but comer and beber aren't? I call BS.
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Level 58
Sep 21, 2023
Because we usually do that every other day.