empleo
empleo is a Spanish noun meaning job, employment. It is the 1,843rd most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A2. It turns up in about 1 in 3,226 sentences of real Spanish prose.
1,843
rank
of 5,000
A2
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 3,226
sentences
contain it
80.4%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing empleo and every Spanish word above it covers 80.4% of the running words in a real book.
Is empleo worth learning now?
empleo sits at rank 1,843, past the first thousand words that cover 75.32% of a book on their own. It is a A2 word: worth learning once the commonest thousand are secure, and you will meet it often enough at that point to make it stick.
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
- lujo #1,839 - luxury, extravagance
- hábito #1,840 - habit, custom
- monja #1,841 - nun, monkess
- ceremonia #1,842 - ceremony
- pesado #1,844 - heavy in weight, weighty
- grano #1,845 - grain
- gota #1,846 - a drop or small amount of
- paloma #1,847 - dove, pigeon
See all 5,000 most common Spanish words, or look up any of the 16,244 Spanish words Einlang ranks.
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 empleo 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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