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Numbers and counting in Spanish

57 words in Spanish on the topic “numbers and counting”: uno — one, dos — two, tres — three, cuatro — four. 57 words can be played from recordings.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

57 words on the topic

  • uno
    one
    Before a noun it drops the o: un café. The full uno survives only when counting
  • dos
    two
    No gender forms: dos cafés and dos casas are exactly alike
  • tres
    three
    The root of trimestre — three months — and of triple
  • cuatro
    four
    The cua- is pronounced KWAH, no w sound: KWAH-troh
  • cinco
    five
    The c before i is a plain s in Latin America and the soft lisped th of Spain
  • seis
    six
    The ei stays one syllable: sayss. Sixteen is dieciséis, with the accent mark back
  • siete
    seven
    The root of septiembre, once the seventh month. Don't confuse its start with siempre, 'always'
  • ocho
    eight
    The ch sounds like the ch in 'church': OH-choh. Eighteen is dieciocho, and no accent mark is needed
  • nueve
    nine
    Don't confuse it with nuevo, 'new': the difference is one letter, and it doesn't carry well by ear
  • diez
    ten
    The z is a lisped th in Spain, a plain s in Latin America. The root of diciembre, once the tenth month
  • once
    eleven
    Eleven and twelve are their own words in Spanish, not 'ten and one': once, doce. Careful: this once has nothing to do with English once
  • doce
    twelve
    A dozen is una docena — the same root: una docena de huevos, a dozen eggs
  • trece
    thirteen
    The unlucky date in Spain is not Friday the thirteenth but Tuesday: martes trece
  • catorce
    fourteen
    You can hear cuatro inside it, though it's spelled ca-, with no u
  • quince
    fifteen
    the qu is just a hard k: KEEN-seh
  • dieciséis
    sixteen
    From sixteen on, Spanish adds: diez y seis fused into one word. The accent on é is a leftover from the stress in seis
  • diecisiete
    seventeen
    Diez plus siete in one word, and no accent mark needed — the stress already falls where the rules want it
  • dieciocho
    eighteen
    The age of majority in Spain: at a los dieciocho you get a driver's license and the vote
  • diecinueve
    nineteen
    The last of the dieci- numbers. Twenty-one to twenty-nine are also written as one word — veintiuno — but thirty-one is already three words: treinta y uno
  • veinte
    twenty
    From twenty-one through twenty-nine the numbers are written as one word: veintiuno, veintidós, veintitrés — and only there
  • treinta
    thirty
    From thirty on, tens join units with y: treinta y uno, treinta y dos — three words each
  • cuarenta
    forty
    From cuatro, with the u kept and the o lost. La cuarentena — quarantine — is a forty-day isolation
  • cincuenta
    fifty
    c before i is the soft th of Spain (plain s in Latin America): seen-KWEN-tah
  • sesenta
    sixty
    From seis, but the i vanished: sesenta, not seisenta. Setenta does the same to siete
  • setenta
    seventy
    From siete, which lost its i. Don't mix it up with sesenta — one letter separates them
  • ochenta
    eighty
    From ocho. Los ochenta is the eighties, the decade
  • noventa
    ninety
    From nueve, with the root regularized: nov-, as in noviembre
  • cien
    one hundred
    Exactly one hundred is cien; with anything added it becomes ciento: ciento uno, ciento veinte. From two hundred up the hundreds agree in gender: doscientas casas
  • mil
    one thousand
    No article and no un: a thousand euros is mil euros. In the plural, miles de personas — thousands of people
  • un millón
    one million
    Unlike mil, it needs un and the preposition de before the thing counted: un millón de euros. The plural is dos millones
  • cero
    zero
    The number and the score in a game: dos a cero. Bajo cero is below zero
  • primero
    first
    Before a masculine noun it drops the o: el primer día, but la primera vez. The same word already means 'first, at first' elsewhere
  • segundo
    second
    The same word is 'a second' of time: espera un segundo. This ordinal never shortens: el segundo día
  • tercero
    third
    Like primero, it drops the o before a masculine noun: el tercer piso, but la tercera puerta
  • último
    last
    stress on the first syllable: OOL-tee-moh
  • cuánto
    how much
    In a question it carries the accent: ¿cuánto cuesta? Before a noun it agrees: ¿cuántos años?, ¿cuántas veces?
  • el par
    pair
    A pair as in two of something: un par de zapatos, un par de días. A couple of people is another word, la pareja
  • la unidad
    item (per piece)
    On a price tag, dos euros la unidad is two euros apiece. In speech it's simpler: ¿cuántos quieres?
  • el porcentaje
    percentage
    The number itself is said differently: el veinte por ciento is twenty percent. El porcentaje is the share as a concept
  • cada
    each
    Invariable for both gender and number: cada día, cada casa. Cada uno is 'each one' of a group of people
  • doscientos
    two hundred
    From two hundred up, hundreds agree in gender: doscientos euros, but doscientas casas
  • trescientos
    three hundred
    From tres and cientos: hundreds are written as one word with no space — trescientos, not tres cientos
  • cuatrocientos
    four hundred
    The root stays intact: cuatro plus cientos. Four syllables: cua-tro-cien-tos
  • quinientos
    five hundred
    Not cincocientos: it has its own root, the one you see in the ordinal quinto. One of three irregular hundreds
  • seiscientos
    six hundred
    From seis, unchanged. Sei- stays one syllable: say-SYEN-tohs
  • setecientos
    seven hundred
    Not sietecientos: siete loses its i. The second irregular hundred, after quinientos
  • ochocientos
    eight hundred
    From ocho, just as it is. The ch sounds like the ch in 'church': oh-choh-SYEN-tohs
  • novecientos
    nine hundred
    Not nuevecientos: nueve drops its e. The third and last irregular hundred
  • cuarto
    fourth
    The same word also means 'room' and 'quarter': el cuarto de baño is the bathroom, un cuarto de hora is a quarter of an hour
  • quinto
    fifth
    Only the meaning of cinco survives: the root is the one in quinientos
  • sexto
    sixth
    the x reads as ks: SEKS-toh
  • séptimo
    seventh
    The accent marks stress on the third syllable from the end — a spot where Spanish wouldn't put it on its own
  • octavo
    eighth
    The root of the musical octave — the eighth step
  • noveno
    ninth
    From nueve, minus the diphthong: no-, not nue-. The same flattening as in novecientos
  • décimo
    tenth
    Also a noun: un décimo is a tenth part — including a ticket share in the Christmas lottery
  • centésimo
    hundredth
    Bookish: in speech you'd hear el número cien. But una centésima is a hundredth of a second on a stopwatch
  • número
    number
    Also the number of a phone, a house, a shoe. A date as a number is another word, la fecha

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What is worth knowing about these words

uno — one. Before a noun it drops the o: un café. The full uno survives only when counting.

dos — two. No gender forms: dos cafés and dos casas are exactly alike.

tres — three. The root of trimestre — three months — and of triple.

cuatro — four. The cua- is pronounced KWAH, no w sound: KWAH-troh.

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How to learn the set instead of just reading it

A price, the change, a house number, the time you agreed on, the floor. Numbers are the first thing you have to catch by ear — and the first thing people say fast.

A list is read in a minute and forgotten in a day. What works: hide the translation, try to recall, get it wrong — and come back to the same words tomorrow.

Frequently asked

How do you say “one” in Spanish?

«uno». Before a noun it drops the o: un café. The full uno survives only when counting. It is one of 57 words in the set “numbers and counting” — the rest are in the table above.

How many numbers do you need to start?

The whole set on this page is 57 words, but there is no need to start with all of it: the words you will need in the next few days are enough. Take them a few at a time — five to seven new ones per session.

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