How common is madre in Spanish?

madre is the 139th most common Spanish word in Einlang's frequency list, built from 394 million words of subtitle dialogue and 45 books. It appears in about 1 in 114 sentences of real Spanish prose. That rank places it at CEFR level A1.

madre

madre is a Spanish noun meaning mother. It is the 139th most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 114 sentences of real Spanish prose.

139

rank

of 5,000

CEFR level

by frequency

1 in 114

sentences

contain it

57.5%

running total

of a book covered

Running total is cumulative: knowing madre and every Spanish word above it covers 57.5% of the running words in a real book.

Is madre worth learning now?

Yes - madre 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

les #135 - dative of ellos and ellas
hora #136 - hour
dónde #137 - where?
nuevo #138 - new
gustar #140 - translated as "to like", analyzable in structure as "to please" [with dative ‘someone’]
gente #141 - people
entre #142 - between
entrar #143 - to enter

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 madre 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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