The 100 Most Common Spanish Nouns

Nouns are the biggest word class in Spanish and the fastest way to start understanding what a sentence is about. Below are the 100 most frequent Spanish nouns, every one listed with its article so you learn the gender — el or la — together with the word itself.

Learning gender from day one is the single best habit a Spanish learner can build. Adjectives, articles, and pronouns all agree with a noun's gender, so guessing wrong ripples through the entire sentence.

Every noun below includes an example sentence from our corpus. Lingular quizzes these nouns article-first, which trains the gender reflex most flashcard apps skip.