COGNADOS EN INGLÉS

El inglés comparte palabras con muchos otros idiomas. Cuando una palabra es

casi igual en dos o más lenguas, se denomina un cognado.
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

Accident • Banana

A B
Active • Basic
Adopt • Bicycle
Association • Blouse
Attention • Brilliant
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Camera • Decoration

C D
 Center • Description
 Circle • Dollar
 Class • Different
 Color • Dictator
 COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Electric • Family
• Famous

E
 Emotion

 Energy

 Explosion

 Exotic
F • Favorite
• Flexible
• Fruit
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Galaxy • Helicopter
• History

G
 Gallon

 Gas

 Golf

 Group
H • Honor
• Hospital
• Human
 COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Idea • Japan
• Jasmine

I
 Imagination

 Independent

 Inform

 Invitation
J • Jungle
• Jupiter
• Justice
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Karate • Leader
• Leopard

K
 Karma

 Kilometer

 Kiosk

 Kiwi
L • Lesson
• Lion
• List
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Magic • Natural
• Necessary

M
 Map

 Memory

 Million

 Music
N • Nectar
• Nervous
• Notion
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Object • Panic
• Park

O
 Observe

 Occasion

 October

 Operation
P • Patient
• Perfume
• Piano
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Radio • Satellite
• Secret

R
 Ranch

 Restaurant

 Rock

 Route
S • September
• Sofa
• Special
 COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Telephone • Uniform
• Union

T
 Television

 Total

 Tourist

 Traffic
U • Unique
• United
• Use
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Vegetarian

V
 Version

X
 Visit • Xenophobia
 Volleyball • Xylophone
 Vote
COMMON COGNATES IN ENGLISH

 Yard • Zebra

Y Z
 Yoga
• Zig-zag
• Zodiac
 Yogurt
• Zone
 Yucca
• Zoo
 FALSE COGNATES

When a person makes the decision of learning English,

he/ she should be aware of the different obstacles that
can be found along the process. One of the obstacles
you can find to understand a text in English, especially in
the beginner levels, are false cognates. A false cognate
is a word in English that can be confused with another
word in the native language due to its similarity in
spelling.

In this case, rope is not “ropa” in Spanish

and file is not “fila”.
LET’S LOOK AT SOME COMMON
EXAMPLES
 OTHER COMMON FALSE
COGNATES
ENGLISH MEANING SPANISH ENGLISH