The 250 Most Common Spanish Nouns

Ranked by real-world frequency, with gender and an example sentence. Study all of them free with spaced repetition.

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The 250 Most Common Spanish Nouns: the list

Gender: m. masculine · f. feminine · n. neuter · c. common

Tips for learning Spanish nouns

• Learn nouns with their article rather than alone: el tiempo, la vez. That way you store the gender at the same time as the word, instead of trying to fix it later.
• Endings are a strong but imperfect clue to gender: nouns in -o such as tiempo, dinero, momento, estado and tipo are usually masculine, and nouns in -a such as casa, vida, hora, semana and chica are usually feminine.
• Watch -e endings closely, since they go both ways: parte (part) is feminine, while hombre (man) and padre (father) are masculine.
• Nouns ending in -dad are feminine, as in verdad (truth) -- a useful shortcut for a whole family of abstract nouns.
• Don't treat vez and tiempo as interchangeable just because both translate as 'time': vez is an occasion or instance, while tiempo is time as a stretch or duration.
• The noun gente (people) is grammatically singular in Spanish, so it takes singular verb and adjective forms; reinforce that habit by reading the example sentences aloud, not just the bare noun.