Appendix:Spanish false cognates and false friends with English
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This is an initial list of false cognates and false friends between Spanish and English. They therefore look similar but have different meanings.
| Spanish term ("translation") | English term that seems to be a cognate but is not
|
| actual (“current”), actualmente (“currently”) | actual, actually |
| asistir (“to attend”) | assist |
| atender (“to pay attention”) | attend |
| basamento (“base of a column”) | basement |
| billón (“trillion”) (when given on the long scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000,000) |
billion (when given on the short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000)
|
| bizarro (“brave, noble”) | bizarre |
| boda (“wedding”) | body |
| campo (“countryside”) | camp
|
| carpeta (“folder”) | carpet |
| chocar (“strike”) | choke
|
| cita (“appointment”) | city |
| complexión (“physical constitution”) | complexion |
| compromiso (“commitment”) | compromise |
| constipación (“cold (sickness)”) | constipation
|
| contestar (“answer”) | contest |
| corresponder (“to correspond to”) | to correspond with |
| decepción (“disappointment”) | deception |
| delito (“crime”) | delight |
| despertar (“to awake”) | desperate
|
| disgusto (“annoyance”) | disgust |
| destituido (“fired”) | destitute |
| dormitorio (“bedroom”) | dormitory
|
| embarazada (“pregnant”) | embarrassed
|
| enviar (“send”) | envy |
| éxito (“success”) | exit |
| fábrica (“factory”) | fabric |
| fútbol (“soccer”) | American football
|
| fútil (“insignificant”) | futile |
| ganga (“bargain”) | gang |
| inconsecuente (“inconsistent”) | inconsequential
|
| introducir (“insert”) | introduce someone |
| largo (“long”) | large |
| molestar (“annoy”) | molest
|
| once (“eleven”) | once
|
| pariente (“relative”) | parent |
| pie (“foot”) | pie |
| pretender (“woo”) | pretend |
| rapista (“barber”) | rapist |
| realizar (“carry out”) | realize
|
| recordar (“remember, remind”) | record |
| ropa (“clothes”) | rope |
| revolver (“revolve”) | revolver |
| sano (“healthy”) | sane |
| sensible (“sensitive”) | sensible |
| sopa (“soup”) | soap |
| soportar (“put up with”) | support |
| suceso (“event”) | success |
| tuna (“prickly pear”) | tuna |
| últimamente (“recently”) | ultimately |
| vaso (“drinking glass”) | vase |
