The Spanish Alphabet
Let's say it right away, Spanish has the same letters as French but it also has ch, ll, ñ which must be considered as letters in their own right. There are no ph, th or rh as in French.
Otherwise, only c, n and r can be doubled in a word. And when they are doubled, this is immediately heard because the letter is pronounced twice as strongly.
All letters in Spanish are feminine. Here are their names:
- a: a
- b: be
- c: ce
- ch: che (not part of the official alphabet but is a sound in its own right)
- d: de
- e: e
- f: efe
- g: ge
- h: hache
- i: i
- j: jota
- k: ka
- l: ele
- ll: elle (not part of the official alphabet but is a sound in its own right)
- m: eme
- n: ene
- ñ: eñe
- o: o
- p: pe
- q: cu
- r: ere
- s: ese
- t: te
- u: u
- v: uve
- w: uve doble
- x: equis
- y: i griega
- z: zeta