Spanish Words That Start With Q | List & Examples
There are some words that start with Q in Spanish. Some may be familiar to English speakers (e.g., “que,” “querer,” and “quince”), but others won’t be. While Q is used in Spanish, it’s not so common for words to start with Q, so this list is shorter than the lists of Spanish words that start with other letters.
Below, you’ll find lists of some adjectives, nouns, verbs, and other words that start with Q in Spanish.
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Spanish adjectives that start with Q
Some Spanish adjectives that start with Q are:
- Quebradizo: brittle; breakable; fragile
- Quebrado: broken; uneven; bankrupt
- Quejumbroso: whiny
- Quemado: burned; burnt
- Querido: dear; beloved
- Quieto: still; calm
- Quijotesco: quixotic; idealistic
- Químico: chemical
- Quinceañero: fifteen-year-old
- Quincenal: biweekly; fortnightly
- Quíntuple: quintuple; fivefold
- Quintuplicado: quintupled; multiplied by five
- Quisquilloso: fussy; picky; touchy
Spanish nouns that start with Q
These are some Spanish nouns that start with Q. When nouns refer to people, they sometimes change grammatical gender (see the nouns marked with the “/a” ending).
- Quehacer: chore; task; duty
- Queja: complaint
- Quejido: moan; groan
- Quemadura: burn
- Querella: quarrel; argument; lawsuit
- Querencia: fondness; affection
- Querido/a: loved one; darling; lover
- Querubín: cherub
- Quesadilla: quesadilla
- Quijada: jaw; jawbone
- Quijote: idealist; knight in shining armor (from Don Quijote)
- Quilla: keel (bottom of a ship)
- Quimera: chimera; fantasy; pipe dream
- Química: chemistry
- Químico/a: chemist
- Quimioterapia: chemotherapy
- Quince: fifteen
- Quinceañera: 15-year-old girl; 15th birthday party
- Quincena: fortnight; two-week period; half-month’s wages
- Quiniela: betting pool
- Quinoa: quinoa
- Quintal: hundredweight
- Quinteto: quintet
- Quintillizo/a: quintuplet
- Quinto/a: fifth
- Quirófano: operating room
- Quiste: cyst
- Quórum: quorum (minimum number of people or votes needed)
Spanish verbs that start with Q
Some Spanish verbs that start with Q are:
- Quebrantar: to violate (a law); to shatter; to weaken
- Quebrar: to break; to go bankrupt
- Quebrarse: to break; to fracture; to twist (a body part)
- Quedar: to stay; to remain; to be left
- Quedarse: to stay behind; to remain
- Quejarse: to complain; to grumble
- Quemar: to burn; to set on fire; to scorch; to scald
- Quemarse: to get burned; to burn oneself
- Querer: to want; to love
- Quitar: to take away; to remove
- Quitarse: to take off (clothing); to move out of the way
Other Spanish words that start with Q
A few Spanish adverbs that start with Q are:
- Quincenalmente: biweekly; fortnightly
- Químicamente: chemically
- Quirúrgicamente: surgically
- Quizá: maybe; perhaps
- Quizás: maybe; perhaps
There is one very common Spanish subordinating conjunction that starts with Q: que (that; than; because).
There are some Spanish pronouns that start with Q:
- Que: that; which; who (relative pronoun)
- Quien: who; whoever; nobody (indefinite pronoun and relative pronoun)
- Quienquiera: whoever (indefinite pronoun)
Finally, these Spanish interrogatives start with Q:
- Qué: what
- Quién: who
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Spanish words with other letters
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