Hi, I’m Johannes Schmid. I’m a product manager, and I build Most Common Spanish from Barcelona.
The site exists for one reason: most learners spend months on vocabulary they rarely hear. This site gives you the words that actually come up, in the order they come up, and tells you how much Spanish they unlock.
Every word on this site has a rank. Word #1 shows up more in everyday Spanish than word #2, and so on down the list. You learn them in that order, so each new word is the most useful one you don’t know yet.
Progress is measured as the share of everyday Spanish your words cover: about 50% at 100 words, 67% at 500, 74% at 1,000 and 80% at 1,500. No points, no badges.
Each of the 1,500 words comes with an example sentence and a translation, and the flashcards play native audio for the word and the sentence.
The coverage figures are estimates based on lexical frequency research: how much of typical spoken Spanish is made up of the most frequent words. They describe the words you will hear, not a guarantee of understanding, because a few unknown words in a sentence can still hide its meaning.
See the full ranked list on the Spanish frequency list page, or check where you stand with the Spanish vocabulary test.