WordForge · Español

Tu idioma es una ventaja. Your language is an advantage. These are WordForge's word-study words shown in English and Spanish together — with a cognate bridge whenever the two words are cousins. Your English words don't go away; Spanish is added to help.

19 of these 22 words are cognates — you may already know them.

Palabras · Words

Tap 🔊 to hear the Spanish. A cognate ✓ is a word that looks and means the same in both languages. Watch for a false friend ⚠ — a word that only looks the same.

  • vocabulary vocabulario

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — vocabulary and vocabulario come from the same root. If you know one, you nearly know the other.

  • etymology etimología

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. Both mean the study of where words come from.

  • morphology morfología

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — the study of a word's parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes).

  • prefix prefijo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. A part added to the FRONT of a word — like re- in redo.

  • suffix sufijo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. A part added to the END of a word — like -ful in helpful.

  • root raíz

    Not a cognate

    Not a cognate — but raíz also means the root of a plant, which is the same idea: what a word grows from.

  • synonym sinónimo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. A word that means (almost) the same as another — big / large.

  • antonym antónimo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. A word that means the OPPOSITE — hot / cold.

  • syllable sílaba

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — the beats you clap in a word: wa-ter-mel-on.

  • consonant consonante

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. Every letter that isn't a vowel.

  • vowel vocal

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — vocal means vowel: a, e, i, o, u.

  • definition definición

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. What a word means, written out.

  • sentence oración

    ⚠ False friend · falso amigo

    ⚠ Careful! The Spanish sentencia looks like sentence but means a court's ruling. A group of words is an oración. Authored help catches this — a raw translator would get it wrong.

  • meaning significado

    Not a cognate

    Not a cognate, but easy to remember: significado is what something signifies.

  • context contexto

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — the words around a word that help you figure out what it means.

  • example ejemplo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate (the j sounds like an h): ejemplo = example.

  • origin origen

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — where a word (or anything) began.

  • alphabet alfabeto

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate. The set of letters, A to Z.

  • grammar gramática

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — the rules for putting words together.

  • paragraph párrafo

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — a group of sentences about one idea.

  • pronounce pronunciar

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate — to say a word out loud the right way.

  • language lenguaje

    ✓ Cognate · cognado

    A cognate (idioma also means a specific language, like Spanish or English).

La voz del elenco · What the cast says

The same lines from your WordForge friends, in both languages.

  • Radicle

    “Every big word hides a small root. Find the root, and the meaning opens up.”

    “Cada palabra grande esconde una raíz pequeña. Encuentra la raíz y el significado se abre.”

  • Origo

    “Words travel across languages. A cognate is a word that took the trip with you.”

    “Las palabras viajan entre idiomas. Un cognado es una palabra que hizo el viaje contigo.”

  • Anna Gram

    “Rearrange the letters — the answer was inside them the whole time.”

    “Reordena las letras: la respuesta estuvo dentro de ellas todo el tiempo.”

These words are written and checked by a person — not machine-translated — so a false friend like sentence → oración (not sentencia) is caught. This is language support for reading the words; it is not a claim to teach Spanish or English on its own.

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