luego
luego is a Spanish conjunction meaning therefore (consequently). It is the 155th most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 120 sentences of real Spanish prose.
155
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 120
sentences
contain it
58.7%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing luego and every Spanish word above it covers 58.7% of the running words in a real book.
Is luego worth learning now?
Yes - luego 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
- momento #151 - moment, instant
- contar #152 - to count
- creer #153 - to believe
- primero #154 - first, first up
- entender #156 - to understand, to fathom
- persona #157 - only used in se persona, third-person singular present indicative of personarse
- acabar #158 - to finish
- vivir #159 - to live
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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 luego 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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