Spanish Dictionary

NEW FEATURE: look out for word profiles accompanying dictionary entries. Word profiles give statistical information about Spanish words.

Welcome to this Spanish dictionary

This is the initial version of a new Spanish-English dictionary that will be growing over the next few months. Several thousand common Spanish words are already included and the dictionary is being continually updated with new words and translations. Lookup tips:

• In general, you can look up inflected forms of Spanish words (such as conjugated forms of words, feminines and plurals of adjectives);
• However, in case of difficulty, try looking up the base form if possible;
• If you're not sure that the text you're looking at is actually Spanish, you can use this site's language identifier to check.

How do I type accents?

You generally don't need to type accents on the words you look up. For example, if you type camion or podrian, the dictionary will recognise these as camión and podrían.

Can I look up plurals, conjugated verb forms etc?

In general, yes. Around 25,000 conjugated verb forms are currently recognised, with direct suggested translations given for the most common. Plurals and feminine forms of many adjectives are also recognised.

If a word isn't in, how do I ask for it to be added?

We continually monitor the types of words that people are looking up, and use this information to decide on what new entries to add. So there is no need to inform us of specific words to add: the process will generally happen "automatically" over time!