Spanish Cognates Word Search
Forty Spanish words an English speaker can read on sight: animal, hospital and chocolate spelled the same, teléfono and música with an accent added, and elefante, planeta, universidad and aeropuerto with a letter or two changed.
Pairs like these are cognates, words that share a parent, most often Latin. Teachers often say that 30 to 40 percent of English words have a related word in Spanish, and the endings follow patterns you can learn. The ending -ty becomes -dad, so university is universidad and city is ciudad; -ous becomes -oso, so famous is famoso; and -ly becomes -mente, so perfectly is perfectamente.
Not every look-alike can be trusted. Embarazada means pregnant, not embarrassed; ropa is clothing, not rope; a carpeta is a school folder, not a carpet; and sensible means sensitive. These false cognates catch out every first-year class, and the best way past them is to learn the handful that matter, because the true cognates far outnumber them.
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Spanish Cognates Word Search Printable Puzzles
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15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Spanish Cognates has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Actor
- Aeropuerto
- Animal
- Autobús
- Bicicleta
- Chocolate
- Color
- Computadora
- Diferente
- Doctor
- Elefante
- Error
- Estudiante
- Fantástico
- Guitarra
- Historia
- Hospital
- Hotel
- Idea
- Importante
- Insecto
- Jirafa
- Lámpara
- Limón
- Música
- Natural
- Océano
- Perfecto
- Piano
- Planeta
- Popular
- Presidente
- Problema
- Radio
- Restaurante
- Teléfono
- Televisión
- Tigre
- Tomate
- Universidad