How to say “word” in 50 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- palabra/paˈlabɾa/ Spanish
- слово[ˈsɫovə] Russian
- बोल/boːl/ Hindi
- λόγο/ˈloɣo/ Greek
- სიტყვა[sitʼχʼʷä] Georgian
- բառ/bɑr/ Armenian
“word” in Spanish: palabra · French: mot · Italian: parola · Russian: слово · Hindi: बोल · Turkish: söz · Greek: λόγο
It is commonest in Basque, where hitz is the 34th most used word.
Word in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans woord/vʊərt/ #294
- Albanian fjalë/ˈfjalə/ #291
- Armenian բառ/bɑr/ #397
- Basque hitz/hit͡s̻/ #34
- Bengali শব্দ/ʃɔbd̪o/ #276
- Bosnian bilo/bîlo/ generalization particle used before another… #52
- Bulgarian да[da] word used to indicate agreement or… #1
- Catalan paraula[pəˈɾaw.lə] #567
- Croatian bilo/bîlo/ generalization particle used before another… #52
- Czech slovo[ˈslovo] #572
- Danish ord/oːˀr/ #380
- Dutch woord/ʋoːrt/ #587
- English name/neɪm/ Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a… #186
- Esperanto vortoj/ˈvortoi̯/ #689
- Estonian sõna/ˈsɤnɑ/ #431
- Finnish sana/ˈsɑnɑ/ #1,316
- French mot/mo/ #514
- Galician palabra/paˈlabɾa/ #418
- Georgian სიტყვა[sitʼχʼʷä] #277
- German wort/vɔrt/ word as an isolated unit #553
- Greek λόγο/ˈloɣo/ #377
- Hebrew מונח/muˈnaχ/ term, specific word #2,374
- Hindi बोल/boːl/ #282
- Hungarian szó[ˈsoː] #229
- Icelandic þær[θair] they, nominative plural of the word hún #461
- Indonesian kata/ˈkata/ #372
- Italian parola/paˈrɔ.la/ #559
- Korean 말씀[ˈma̠(ː)ɭs͈ɯm] word or speech #461
- Latvian ļoti[ʎùoti] used to intensify the meaning of the word it… #63
- Lithuanian žodis[²ˈʒoːdʲɪs] #545
- Macedonian збор[zbɔr] #350
- Malay perkataan[pə(r).ka.tə.ʔan] A word #690
- Malayalam വാക്ക്/ʋaːkkɨ/ #189
- Norwegian ord/uːɾ/ a word #409
- Persian کلمه[kʰʲæ.le.mé] #465
- Polish słowa/ˈswɔ.va/ #570
- Romanian cuvânt[kuˈvɨnt] #845
- Russian слово[ˈsɫovə] word, term #564
- Serbian bilo/bîlo/ generalization particle used before another… #51
- Slovak slovo/slɔvɔ/ #343
- Slovenian beseda/bɛséːda/ #458
- Spanish palabra/paˈlabɾa/ #531
- Swedish ord/ˈuːrd/ a word #444
- Tagalog salita/saliˈtaʔ/ #379
- Tamil வார்த்தை/ʋɑːɾt̪ːɐɪ̯/ #458
- Telugu జో/ˈɟoː/ hush! a word used in lulling a child to sleep #323
- Turkish söz/søz/ word, statement, speech #228
- Ukrainian поговорити[pɔɦɔwɔˈrɪte] to talk, to speak, to have a word #359
- Urdu لفظ/ləfz/ word, term #457
- Vietnamese lời[ləːj˨˩] word; utterances #195
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.