negocio
negocio is a Spanish noun meaning business, enterprise (commercial enterprise or establishment). It is the 447th most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 680 sentences of real Spanish prose.
447
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 680
sentences
contain it
68.6%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing negocio and every Spanish word above it covers 68.6% of the running words in a real book.
Is negocio worth learning now?
Yes - negocio 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
- justo #443 - right, just
- formar #444 - to form, to create
- difícil #445 - difficult, hard, tough, challenging, rough, tricky, trying, arduous, testing
- limpiar #446 - to clean
- jefe #448 - chief
- guardar #449 - to save
- país #450 - country
- dolor #451 - pain, ache, aching soreness, tenderness
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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 negocio 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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