Are there any words that are the same in English and Spanish?

Question

So, I've asked if there was any words that can't be translated from English to Spanish. Now are there any words that are the same in both languages, like taco.

Answer 1

My first thoughts were sombrero, fiesta and siesta but here is a link you should like:

Matching Words

It is from a site by the Puebla Institute which is fantastic.

20,000 words in 20 minutes

The matching words sheet is part of the cheat sheet, which if you do not have much time is brilliant.

cheat sheet

I am not sure if I have put all the links - there is a dictionary and a grammar section too. The site has a cleaner look than when I first used it some years ago.

Main Site

:) - ian-hill, Aug 26, 2015

Having checked my links they function better on a laptop rather than tablet/mobile - Mardle, Aug 26, 2015

Answer 2

"Are there any words that are the same in English and Spanish?"

No.

(Jejeje.)

Excellent, Smithers. - Jubilado, Aug 26, 2015

Answer 3

Taco only have the same meaning in both languages if you are refering to the Mexican food. Taco has other diferent meanings in Spanish. There are a lot of them of latin origin like actor, angel, balance,general, hospital, material, miserable, opinion, original,personal, real, terrible, usual.

. Note: I don't have put the acents

'Note I haven't put/added the accents' - Mardle, Aug 26, 2015

an unforgivable mistake. Many thanks Mardle - 000a35ff, Aug 26, 2015

Unforgivable? No your English is way better than my Spanish - Mardle, Aug 26, 2015

Answer 4

There are many such, and some do mean the same thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orthographically_identical_words_in_English_and_Spanish

Since the above seems quite incomplete, here is another:

http://www.realfastspanish.com/vocabulary/spanish-cognates

oh my God there are more than i supposed. very good web site. thanks - 000a35ff, Aug 25, 2015

Then there are the ones almost the same, like -tion/-ción or -ity/idad. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 25, 2015

And that list does not have more technical cognates like distal- just the more common words. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 25, 2015

Answer 5

Tequila...

Now there's a multilingual man if I ever saw one! ;-) - Winkfish, Aug 26, 2015

Answer 6

Whisk(e)y

I've seen "güisqui" for your national tipple Jon. :) - - ian-hill, Aug 26, 2015

After a few I reckon that's how I probably pronounce it too... ;-) - Faldaesque, Aug 26, 2015

If I were to render it phonetically in Spanish I would spell it ujisque (we still pronunce 'wh' differently from 'w'), which is actually very close to the Gaelic: uisge... ;-) - Faldaesque, Aug 26, 2015

I am one of 137 people in the USA who pronounce 'wh' and 'w' differently. - jtaniel, Aug 26, 2015

Answer 7

Well to tack on to what jtaniel said (no).

He has a point. Last time I was in Mexico it was with a friend who knows maybe 6 words in Spanish, at a place where the waiters spoke passable English. He tried to order something with a jalapeño- in English. The waiter understood everything except jalapeño. I had to translate that for him. After all, why learn a word when it is the same in both languages (I am speaking of the waiter- my friend only thinks he needs the six words in Spanish).

Ha-luh-pee-noh vs. Hah-lah-peh-nyoh or something like that (I am no good at coding sounds, but most of the vowels he said were nothing like they should have been.)

Answer 8

Wow. So darn many.

Answer 9

Thanks alot!