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Spanish Vocabulary Lists by Level
Browse 25 curated Spanish vocabulary bands from beginner to advanced. Every entry includes its common English meaning and grammatical type.
25 vocabulary bands
From first words to native-range vocabulary
Choose a band to inspect its Spanish lemmas, concise English meanings, and test eligibility.
Estimated vocabulary: 100–250 lemmas
Level 1 | A1−
The test list excludes cognates and near-cognates.
Methodology & sources
How the vocabulary bands are made
This tool uses 1,479 hand-selected Spanish words and phrases across 25 learning bands. Each entry has a concise English meaning and a reviewed grammatical label, allowing every question to use nine answers of the same type.
The selection excludes cognates, near-cognates, proper names, brands, acronyms, and culturally obvious loanwords. That keeps familiar-looking forms from inflating the estimate.
The CEFR labels are approximate vocabulary bands created for this tool, not official CEFR cut scores. A0 is the test’s neutral reset state; formal CEFR materials use Pre-A1. An isolated multiple-choice vocabulary test cannot measure speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, or communication.
These are curated test selections rather than a complete frequency dictionary. The estimated receptive-vocabulary ranges describe the broader vocabulary associated with each result band; they are not the number of entries shown here. See the dataset notes.