Las Formas Worksheet – Shapes in Spanish to Match

All 36 words

First shapes 12

el círculo Circle. Masculine.
el corazón Heart. Masculine.
el cuadrado Square. Masculine. Four equal straight sides and four right angles.
el óvalo Oval. Masculine. A closed curve close to an ellipse.
el rectángulo Rectangle. Masculine. Four right angles.
el rombo Rhombus. Masculine. Four equal sides, with two angles wider than the other two.
el semicírculo Semicircle. Masculine. Half of a circle, cut along its diameter.
el triángulo Triangle. Masculine. Three sides and three angles.
la espiral Spiral. Feminine. A curve that turns round a point, farther away at each turn.
la estrella Star. Feminine. Also a star in the night sky.
la flecha Arrow. Feminine. A sign that shows which way to go.
la forma Shape. Feminine. The plural is las formas.

Polygons and solid shapes 12

el cilindro Cylinder. Masculine. Its two flat ends are called bases.
el cono Cone. Masculine.
el cuadrilátero Quadrilateral. Masculine. Any polygon with four sides and four angles.
el cubo Cube. Masculine. A solid closed in by six equal squares.
el hexágono Hexagon. Masculine. Six sides and six angles.
el octágono Octagon. Masculine. Eight sides and eight angles.
el paralelogramo Parallelogram. Masculine. Four sides, each parallel to the one opposite.
el pentágono Pentagon. Masculine. Five sides and five angles.
el prisma Prism. Masculine. Two equal, parallel ends joined by parallelograms.
el trapecio Trapezoid. Masculine. Four sides, only two of them parallel.
la esfera Sphere. Feminine. Every point of its surface is as far from the center as the rest.
la pirámide Pyramid. Feminine. Its sides are triangles that meet at one point.

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Parts of a shape 12

el ángulo Angle. Masculine.
el centro Center. Masculine. Every point on the edge of a circle is equally far from it.
el lado Side. Masculine. One of the lines that close in a polygon.
el polígono Polygon. Masculine. A flat shape closed in by straight lines.
el punto Point. Masculine. Also a dot.
el vértice Vertex. Masculine. The point where the two sides of an angle meet.
la arista Edge. Feminine. A line made where two flat surfaces cross.
la cara Face. Feminine. One of the flat surfaces that close in a solid.
la esquina Corner. Feminine. The outside of the place where two sides come together.
la figura Figure. Feminine. In geometry, a space closed in by lines or surfaces.
la línea Line. Feminine.
redondo Round: shaped like a circle or a ball. Feminine form: redonda.

How this list was compiled: Own list of Spanish shape words, chosen for this site on 2026-10-11, in three sets of twelve. The spelling, accent marks, gender and geometry senses of every word were read that day in the Diccionario de la lengua española of the Real Academia Española (https://dle.rae.es/cuadrado, the same address pattern for each word), in the copies of those pages kept at web.archive.org, and the English meaning in the word's Spanish entry at Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cuadrado, the same pattern). Octágono points to octógono in both. The note after each meaning is our own wording of the first dictionary's definition. That a rhombus is also called a diamond, said in an answer on the page, is from the Wikipedia article Rhombus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombus). Licence: own work

How it works

This las formas worksheet prints la forma, the Spanish word for a shape, and eleven shapes down the left, from el círculo to el semicírculo, and their English names in another order down the right.

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Las formas: first shapes in Spanish

Set opens on First shapes: la forma, el círculo, el cuadrado, el triángulo, el rectángulo, el óvalo, el rombo, la estrella, el corazón, la flecha, la espiral and el semicírculo. Under Answer by, Cut and paste turns the twelve English names into tiles to cut out and glue.

Shapes in Spanish worksheets for 2nd grade

As a 2nd grade shapes worksheet in English and Spanish, Polygons and solid shapes prints el pentágono, el hexágono, el octágono, el trapecio, el paralelogramo, el cuadrilátero, el cubo, la esfera, el cono, el cilindro, la pirámide and el prisma. Parts of a shape has el lado, el ángulo, el vértice, la esquina, la cara and la arista among its twelve.

Questions and answers

What does las formas mean in English?

The shapes. La forma is a shape: the Spanish academy's dictionary defines it as the outer shape of a thing. The same dictionary uses figura geométrica, geometric figure, when it defines an angle.

What is a diamond shape called in Spanish?

El rombo, the rhombus, which is another name for the diamond shape. The Spanish academy's dictionary defines it as a parallelogram with equal sides and two angles wider than the other two. El diamante is the gemstone.

Is it octágono or octógono?

Both are right. The Spanish academy's dictionary defines octógono, a polygon with eight angles and eight sides, and gives octágono as another form of the word. This sheet prints el octágono.

How do you say circle and square in Spanish?

El círculo and el cuadrado. A triangle is el triángulo and a rectangle is el rectángulo. All four are masculine, and all but el cuadrado carry an accent mark.