Top 100 Spanish Nouns: Essential Guide to Commonly Used Nouns

Here are the top one hundred most common nouns in Spanish. These are in alphabetical order, not frequency order.

1. la acción (the action)
2. el actor (the actor)
3. el acto (the act)
4. el acuerdo (the agreement)
5. el agua (the water)
6. el aire (the air)
7. el amor (the love)
8. el animal (the animal)
9. el año (the year)
10. el árbol (the tree)
11. la boca (the mouth)
12. el brazo (the arm)
13. la cabeza (the head)
14. la calle (the street)
15. la cama (the bed)
16. la canción (the song)
17. el carro (the car)
18. la casa (the house)
19. la cena (the dinner)
20. el cielo (the sky)
21. la ciudad (the city)
22. el clima (the weather)
23. la comida (the food)
24. la computadora (the computer)
25. el cuerpo (the body)
26. el día (the day)
27. el dinero (the money)
28. la escuela (the school)
29. la espalda (the back)
30. la estación (the station)
31. la familia (the family)
32. la fiesta (the party)
33. el fuego (the fire)
34. el gato (the cat)
35. la gente (the people)
36. la habitación (the room)
37. el hermano (the brother)
38. el hijo (the son)
39. la hora (the hour/time)
40. la idea (the idea)
41. el juego (the game)
42. el juguete (the toy)
43. la leche (the milk)
44. el libro (the book)
45. la luz (the light)
46. la madre (the mother)
47. la mano (the hand)
48. el mar (the sea)
49. la mesa (the table)
50. la montaña (the mountain)
51. el mundo (the world)
52. la música (the music)
53. la nariz (the nose)
54. la noche (the night)
55. el nombre (the name)
56. el número (the number)
57. el ojo (the eye)
58. el oído (the ear)
59. el olor (the smell)
60. el país (the country)
61. el padre (the father)
62. la palabra (the word)
63. el papel (the paper)
64. el parque (the park)
65. la parte (the part)
66. la pared (the wall)
67. la película (the movie)
68. la persona (the person)
69. el pie (the foot)
70. el pelo (the hair)
71. la piedra (the stone)
72. la piel (the skin)
73. la planta (the plant)
74. la playa (the beach)
75. el poder (the power)
76. el problema (the problem)
77. la puerta (the door)
78. el reloj (the clock/watch)
79. el río (the river)
80. la ropa (the clothes)
81. la rosa (the rose)
82. el sol (the sun)
83. la sombra (the shadow)
84. la sopa (the soup)
85. el sueño (the dream)
86. la tarde (the afternoon)
87. el teléfono (the phone)
88. el tiempo (the weather/time)
89. el trabajo (the work)
90. el tren (the train)
91. la verdad (the truth)
92. la vida (the life)
93. el viento (the wind)
94. la ventana (the window)
95. el viaje (the trip)
96. el vino (the wine)
97. la voz (the voice)
98. el zapato (the shoe)
99. la zona (the zone)
100. el zoológico (the zoo)

This list is an approximation; I don’t think we can be 100 percent sure about it. Nevertheless, all of those nouns are very common.

A few of those nouns have both masculine and feminine forms. Here they are:

• el gato (the male cat), la gata (the female cat)
• el hermano (the brother), la hermana (the sister)
• el hijo (the son), la hija (the daughter)
• el niño (the boy/child), la niña (the girl/child)
• el amigo (the male friend), la amiga (the female friend) – amigo isn’t on the list, but I’ve seen it on another frequency list, and I believe it is a word that you should know.

In case your curious, these might be the top ten most commonly used nouns, in order of frequency. So maybe tiempo is the most commonly used noun.

1. el tiempo (the time)
2. el hombre (the man)
3. la mujer (the woman)
4. el día (the day)
5. la gente (the people)
6. el año (the year)
7. la casa (the house)
8. el mundo (the world)
9. la vida (the life)
10. el trabajo (the work)

There you have a list of the most commonly used nouns in Spanish. ¡Buena suerte!

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