Spanish Drawing Game Words With English Meanings

How this list was compiled: Our own list of Spanish nouns that can be drawn, written for this page on 2026-09-18. Every card is a noun with its article, because the article is how a learner remembers the gender. The answer on each card is the English meaning, and the note after it is our own drawing hint. Easy cards are first-year words for one simple object. Medium cards are everyday nouns a second-year learner meets. Hard cards are less common words, words whose article surprises a learner, and compound words. How it was checked, on 2026-09-19: every word was looked up in the English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraguas#Spanish is one example entry). For each word the Spanish section was read to confirm that the gender on the es-noun headword line matches the article on the card, and that the English meaning on the card is one of the senses the entry gives. Plural cards (Las uvas, Las palomitas, Los pantalones, Los calcetines, Los guantes, Las tijeras) were checked under their singular entry, and Las gafas under gafas. Every word was also found as a Spanish entry in the Spanish-language Wiktionary (https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraguas is one example). Four drafted words were dropped at this step: two that had no entry in the Spanish-language Wiktionary, and two whose entry lists a slur or a violent slang sense. Words known to be rude in some countries were left out. Many ordinary words on the list, such as the ones for egg, milk and bird, have a slang sense somewhere; they stay because they are the standard classroom words. The six feminine words that take el (El águila, El agua, El hacha, El ancla, El arpa, El hada) each carry the English Wiktionary usage note for feminine nouns that begin with a stressed a, and the plural with las follows the same note (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:U:es:noun_f_starting_with_stressed_a). El cometa and La cometa are two headwords in one entry, masculine for comet and feminine for kite. Every second meaning in a note (stairs and ladder, candle and sail, bench and bank, doll and wrist, store and tent, leaf and sheet, letter and playing card, and the rest) is a sense listed in that word's entry. Every regional note (patata and papa, zumo and jugo, melocotón and durazno, cacahuete, cacahuate and maní, coche and carro, gafas, lentes and anteojos, nevera, refrigerador and frigorífico, hongo and seta, plátano and banana, cometa and papalote, limón as lime, camión as bus) repeats the region labels printed in the entries for those words on the same day. The word for word readings in the compound group follow the etymology line of each entry; for El arcoíris and La telaraña the entry names the two parts without translating them, so the note does the same. The Latin origins given for El mapamundi and El puercoespín follow their entries too. The remark that murciélago holds all five vowels can be checked by reading the word. The dictionary of the Real Academia Española (https://dle.rae.es) could not be opened on 2026-09-18 or 2026-09-19, so it was not consulted and nothing here rests on it. Until the compound words and the six feminine words that take el have been checked in that dictionary, the page asks a class to score the article on Easy and Medium cards only. One drafted compound was dropped on 2026-09-19 because its gender is in dispute: both Wiktionaries give quitanieves as masculine, but https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitanieves, read the same day, uses the feminine throughout (Una quitanieves es un vehículo), so a learner could fairly give either article. Wiktionary is written by volunteers, so treat the regional notes as a guide and not as a ruling. The list names no people, brands or titles of works. Licence: own work