noun · #486
dream; sleepiness
Example: Tengo mucho sueño.
I am very sleepy.
Spanish → English
el sueño
el sueño is Spanish for dream; sleepiness.
What el sueño means
How common is it?
el sueño is ranked #486 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 sueño — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
- el partido — match; political party
- la clase — class; kind
- la tarea — task, homework
- la costumbre — habit, custom
- recoger — to pick up
- dejar de — to stop doing
See all 500 most common Spanish words
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Compiled and checked by the Flipkado team · Last updated 2026-08-22