DELE B2 Vocabulary List (Upper-Intermediate Spanish)

DELE B2 certifies that a candidate can interact with native speakers with enough fluency that neither side is straining, and can produce clear detailed text on a wide range of subjects. The grammar opens into the imperfect subjunctive, si tuviera and ojalá viniera, and the conditional.

For candidates preparing DELE B2. Maps to CEFR B2.

About DELE B2

DELE B2 certifies that a candidate can interact with native speakers with enough fluency that neither side is straining, and can produce clear detailed text on a wide range of subjects. The grammar opens into the imperfect subjunctive, si tuviera and ojalá viniera, and the conditional. Vocabulary is where B2 is really decided: politics, science, ethics and economics, plus the near-synonym distinctions that separate a fluent B2 from an awkward one, proponer against sugerir, lograr against conseguir.

Who this list is for

DELE B2 is the diploma most institutions actually ask for. It is the common minimum for university study in Spanish and a frequent requirement for professional work in Spanish-speaking countries. It suits learners who can follow a film without subtitles and read non-fiction without a dictionary but still notice themselves reaching for the safe word instead of the right one. If you moved abroad for work and Spanish is now the language of your meetings, this is the level that gets recognised.

How to study

At B2 the leap is lexical, not grammatical, so treat vocabulary as the exam and grammar as maintenance. Read El País or La Nación daily, even for ten minutes, and harvest the exact phrasing rather than the gist. Put synonym distinctions and register markers into spaced repetition, since these are what examiners notice and what you cannot look up mid-answer. Write full timed responses and then audit which higher-level words you had been reviewing and still did not use, because the gap between recognising a word and reaching for it is the whole B2 to C1 distance.

The list (2106 words)

Some example sentences come from the Tatoeba Project (tatoeba.org), CC BY 2.0 FR. The rest were written for MindDory. Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Where do the words after this list come from?

A list has an end. The words you keep for good usually turn up somewhere else — in a page you read, a show you watched, or a conversation you had — one at a time, and rarely at the level you planned for.

MindDory connects to Claude, Cursor, and other assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol, so a word you meet while you are chatting is saved to your deck as a flashcard without you leaving the conversation. There is no copy and paste, no CSV export, and no browser extension.

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