Spanish is one of the many languages whose text corpora are included in Sketch Engine, a tool for discovering how language works. Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists, lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers and students working with Spanish to easily discover what is typical and frequent in the language and to notice phenomena which would go unnoticed without a large sample of Spanish text.

Sketch Engine has tools to identify and analyse collocations, synonyms and antonyms, examples of use in context, keywords or terms. Frequency word lists of Spanish single-word or multi-word expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can create their own Spanish corpus using the Sketch Engine's intuitive built-in tool.

Tools to work with Spanish text corpora

To work with the Spanish language, Sketch Engine offers the following tools:

Spanish Word Sketch

Word Sketch is the easiest way to get an at-a-glance overview of a word’s behaviour. Collocations are displayed in categorized lists to identify strong and weak collocates easily. more»

Available Word Sketches for user corpora: Full-featured Sketch grammar.

Word Sketch difference will compare two word sketches and will indicate which collocates tend to combine with one word or the other. The information can be used to avoid mistakes in word choice or to study the differences between two words with a similar meaning. more»

Spanish concordance

The concordancer included in Sketch Engine can be used to display a list of examples (called concordance) of the search word or phrase as it appears in Spanish language text corpora. The search will display the keyword with some context to the right and context to the left of the keyword (KWIC concordance). more»

Spanish term extraction

Terminology extraction is a feature of Sketch Engine which automatically identifies single-word and multi-word terms in a subject-specific Spanish text by comparing it to a general Spanish corpus. The tool is aimed at translators, terminologists, ESP teachers and anyone who needs to deal with domain texts. The screen with results includes links to example sentences and Wikipedia definitions. more»

Bilingual term extraction

Parallel corpora are used to extract terms in two languages simultaneously and display a terminology list with translations into the other language. more»

Spanish thesaurus

The thesaurus is a feature that automatically generates a list of words similar in meaning to the keyword. more»

Spanish word lists

The word list feature will generate a frequency list of all words that appear in a text or corpus. A very large corpus can be used to generate a list of all words that exist in Spanish or all words that start, contain or end with specific characters. Advanced options can be used to generate lists of grammatical categories or parts of speech used in a corpus together with their frequencies. more»

N-grams in Spanish

Generating a list of N-grams contained in a text makes it possible to identify and study patterns and notice phenomena related to multi-word units (MWU) in Spanish that cannot be detected by other tools. more»

List of available Spanish corpora

  • trial – available to both trial users as well as paying subscribers
  • main – only available to paying subscribers
  • on demand – access to the corpus is subject to specific terms, click the corpus name for details
CorpusAccess policySize in words
American Spanish Web 2011 (esamTenTen11) main 7,475,579,365
Araneum Hispanicum Maius [2013] main 892,299,770
CELEN: Learner Corpus of Spanish in Japan open 658,467
CHILDES Spanish Corpus main 802,743
COLEM open 1,677,597
DGT-Translation Memory parallel – Spanish main 57,311,149
ELEXIS Spanish Web 2020 main 1,012,502,656
ELEXIS Spanish Web 2020 (esTenTen20) WSD sample main 1,988,999
EUR-Lex 2/2016 parallel – Spanish trial 635,187,126
EUR-Lex judgments 12/2016 parallel – Spanish trial 39,431,836
Europarl spoken parallel – Spanish trial 54,302,284
Europarl spoken parallel – Spanish open 15,513,307
European Spanish Web 2011 (eseuTenTen11) main 2,021,633,644
Gutenberg Spanish 2020 main 37,202,233
Open Parallel Corpus (OPUS) – Spanish main 701,944,027
OpenSubtitles 2018 parallel – Spanish main 753,235,853
ParlaTalk Spain Republic parliamentary debates (lower house) trial 1,882,700
Spanish Calderon Drama Corpus main 2,112,643
Spanish Drama Corpus main 371,624
Spanish parliamentary debates (ParlaMint 2.1) trial 12,875,498
Spanish parliamentary debates (ParlaMint 2.1, CoNLL format) trial 12,930,870
Spanish Trends trial 1,473,378,102
Spanish Web 2005 (SpanishWaC) main 97,773,185
Spanish Web 2011 (esTenTen11, Eu + Am) main 9,497,213,009
Spanish Web 2018 (esTenTen18) main 16,953,735,742
Spanish Web 2023 (esTenTen23) trial 28,652,392,686
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2014-2016 Spanish trial 4,055,944,612
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2014-2021 Spanish main 16,358,148,966
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2021-03 Spanish main 373,185,400
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2021-04 Spanish main 289,923,417
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2021-22 Spanish main 5,869,620,451
United Nations Parallel Corpus (UNPC) – Spanish trial 692,809,915