Spanish Alphabet Practice
Listen to the word in accents from different countries and type it, or choose the right spelling from three. Below, a worksheet with an answer key you can do on paper or print.
What you need to know
- The Spanish alphabet has 27 letters, and the names that trip people up most are hache, jota, eñe, uve and ye.
- Ll and y sound the same in most countries, like the y in "yes" (with a sh sound in Argentina and Uruguay), and ch always sounds like the ch in "church," as in chico.
- Ñ sounds like the ny in "canyon" (mañana, España), and the h is always silent (hoy, hijo).
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Alphabet in Spanish: worksheet with answer key
Do them on paper, in your head or printed out: answer first, then open each answer to check.
Name: ______________________________ Date: ____/____/______
Letter names
Write out the name of each letter in Spanish.
- The letter H
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hache · the h is silent when you speak
- The letter J
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jota
- The letter Ñ
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eñe · the name is feminine: la eñe
- The letter V
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uve · in Latin America also ve corta or ve chica
- The letter Y
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ye · i griega is also correct
Ñ, ll, y or ch? Complete the word
Fill in with ñ, ll, y or ch. The English meaning is in parentheses.
- ca___e (street)
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calle
- ma___ana (tomorrow)
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mañana
- no___e (night)
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noche · ch sounds like the ch in church
- pla___a (beach)
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playa
- gali___a (hen)
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gallina · ll sounds like y
- peque___o (small)
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pequeño · ñ sounds like the ny in canyon
Write it in Spanish
Write the word in Spanish. Watch out for ñ, ll, h and j.
- wine
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vino · plain n, no ñ
- kitchen
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cocina · with c
- key
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llave · starts with ll
- son
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hijo · silent h, then j
Answer key
- hache
- jota
- eñe
- uve
- ye
- calle
- mañana
- noche
- playa
- gallina
- pequeño
- vino
- cocina
- llave
- hijo
Alphabet in Spanish: common questions
How many letters are in the Spanish alphabet?
There are 27: the 26 letters of the English alphabet plus ñ. Ch and ll counted as letters until the 2010 Ortografía, when they started being treated as digraphs, two letters with a single sound. You still write them the same way.
What are v, w and y called in Spanish?
The names the RAE recommends are uve, uve doble and ye. The other names are still correct and very common in Latin America: ve corta (or ve chica) for v, doble ve or doble u for w, and i griega for y.
Do ll and y sound the same in Spanish?
In most of Latin America and Spain, yes: pollo (chicken) and poyo (stone bench) sound alike. In Argentina and Uruguay both sound like the "sh" in "show" or the "s" in "measure": calle, yo. A few areas, such as Paraguay and parts of the Andes, still keep the two sounds apart.
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