cómo
cómo is an Spanish adverb meaning how?. It is the 81st most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 106 sentences of real Spanish prose.
81
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 106
sentences
contain it
51.9%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing cómo and every Spanish word above it covers 51.9% of the running words in a real book.
Is cómo worth learning now?
Yes - cómo is inside the first thousand Spanish words, and those thousand cover 75.32% of the prose in a real book and 84.25% of everyday speech. Words this common are worth far more study time than anything further down the list.
Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a Spanish text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.
Spanish words of the same frequency
- señor #77 - mister, sir, lord
- crear #78 - to create
- volver #79 - to return, to revert, to get back
- parecer #80 - to seem, to see fit
- ni #82 - Used when negating two or more elements, and not, not A or B, not A nor B, neither A nor B
- mismo #83 - right, exactly, immediately
- sobre #84 - over, above, on, upon, atop
- grande #85 - big, large
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Where this comes from
The rank is measured, not copied: 394 million words of subtitle dialogue for how Spanish is spoken, and 45 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so cómo is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.
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