noun · #351
right
Example: El baño está a la derecha.
The bathroom is on the right.
Spanish → English
la derecha
la derecha is Spanish for right.
What la derecha means
How common is it?
la derecha is ranked #351 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 la derecha — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
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