noun · #419
colour
Example: ¿Qué color prefieres?
Which colour do you prefer?
Spanish → English
el color
el color is Spanish for colour.
What el color means
How common is it?
el color is ranked #419 of the 500 most common Spanish words. It sits in the second half of the list: still everyday vocabulary, but you will meet it less often than the first two hundred.
Nearby on the frequency list
Words with a similar frequency to el color — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
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