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mamá

mamá is a Spanish noun meaning a term of affection for a woman. It is the 487th most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 1,471 sentences of real Spanish prose.

487

rank

of 5,000

A1

CEFR level

by frequency

1 in 1,471

sentences

contain it

69.4%

running total

of a book covered

Running total is cumulative: knowing mamá and every Spanish word above it covers 69.4% of the running words in a real book.

Is mamá worth learning now?

Yes - mamá 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.

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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 mamá 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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