Spanish vocabulary word lists: A1 to C2
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Which Spanish vocabulary lists are available?
VocabGecko offers six Spanish vocabulary lists, from A1 to C2, extracted from the Instituto Cervantes curriculum inventories. Choose a level that fits your current reading or lessons, then preview the list before enrolling. You can use several lists together. Vocabulary shared between those lists is prepared once for each learner.
| Spanish list | Entries |
|---|---|
| A1 | 457 |
| A2 | 573 |
| B1 | 1,191 |
| B2 | 2,122 |
| C1 | 2,430 |
| C2 | 2,789 |
Counts checked on 1 November 2026. They include multiword entries and describe memberships in each list. Some vocabulary appears at several levels, so the figures should not be added to estimate unique words.
Where does the Spanish vocabulary come from?
The lists use the general and specific notions inventories in the Instituto Cervantes Plan curricular, known as PCIC. VocabGecko takes directly extractable vocabulary from each level's column. Complex source notation that cannot be reliably turned into a practice entry is omitted. These are selections from the inventories, not complete copies of them.
See the PCIC source index. The extraction used archived official pages where live pages were unavailable. VocabGecko writes its own definitions, examples and questions. It is independent of Instituto Cervantes and is not endorsed by it.
The source is Instituto Cervantes, Plan curricular del Instituto Cervantes. Niveles de referencia para el español, inventories 8 (general notions) and 9 (specific notions):
| Level pair | General notions | Specific notions |
|---|---|---|
| A1–A2 | Inventory 8: A1–A2 | Inventory 9: A1–A2 |
| B1–B2 | Inventory 8: B1–B2 | Inventory 9: B1–B2 |
| C1–C2 | Inventory 8: C1–C2 | Inventory 9: C1–C2 |
Each VocabGecko level uses its corresponding column within these paired inventories. Some original pages may be temporarily unavailable; the collection was extracted from archived copies of these official pages.
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