noun · #111
food, meal
Example: La comida está lista.
The food is ready.
Spanish → English
la comida
la comida is Spanish for food, meal.
What la comida means
How common is it?
la comida is ranked #111 of the 500 most common Spanish words. It is in the everyday core of the language — common enough that it is worth knowing cold before you move on to specialist vocabulary.
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Words with a similar frequency to la comida — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
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