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  • Checked October 2026

Label the Face in Spanish

Thirteen Spanish words for the parts of the face, on one drawing.

Label the Face in Spanish

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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. el ojo
  2. la nariz
  3. la oreja
  4. los labios
  5. la mejilla
  6. la barbilla
  7. la frente
  8. la sien
  9. la ceja
  10. el párpado
  11. las pestañas
  12. la fosa nasal
  13. la mandíbula

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05, from the artist's rules for the proportions of a head seen from the front. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

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  1. el ojo Eye Eye. The plural is los ojos.
  2. la nariz Nose Nose. The plural changes z to c: las narices.
  3. la oreja Ear Ear, the part you can see. The organ of hearing is el oído.
  4. los labios Lips Lips. One lip is un labio.
  5. la mejilla Cheek Cheek. Also el cachete.
  6. la barbilla Chin Chin. Also el mentón.

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  1. la frente Forehead Forehead. El frente, masculine, is a front, as in the weather.
  2. la sien Temple Temple, at the side of the head. The plural is las sienes.
  3. la ceja Eyebrow Eyebrow, the hair above each eye.
  4. el párpado Eyelid Eyelid, the fold that covers the eye.
  5. las pestañas Eyelashes Eyelashes. One is una pestaña.
  6. la fosa nasal Nostril Nostril. Also el orificio nasal; the plural is las fosas nasales.
  7. la mandíbula Jaw Jaw. Also la quijada.

How this list was compiled: Every Spanish word, its gender and its meaning was read on 2026-10-08 in two dictionaries, as on the site's other Spanish pages. First WordReference, Spanish-English (https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen= followed by the word): ojo, nariz (plural narices), oreja, oído, labio (plural labios), mejilla, cachete, barbilla, mentón, frente (feminine: forehead; masculine: front), sien, ceja, párpado, pestaña (plural pestañas), fosa nasal, orificio nasal, mandíbula, quijada, cara, rostro and cabeza; and its English-Spanish entry nostril (fosa nasal, orificio nasal, narina). Second SpanishDict (https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/ followed by the word): the same words, each with its gender. The Cambridge Spanish-English dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/spanish-english/ followed by the word) was read as a third for oreja (the outer part of the ear), oído, barbilla (synonym mentón), sien, fosa nasal, mandíbula and quijada. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05, from the artist's rules for the proportions of a head seen from the front (eyes halfway down the head, five eye widths across, the ears between the brow and the base of the nose). Own work, nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

Each part of the face is asked by its Spanish name: el ojo and la nariz come first, la fosa nasal and la mandíbula last. Every word comes with el, la, los or las, the way its gender is learned.

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Ten feminine words, three masculine

Read as a labeled face in Spanish, ten words are feminine: la frente, la sien, la ceja, las pestañas, la nariz, la fosa nasal, la oreja, la mejilla, la barbilla and la mandíbula. The masculine three are el ojo, el párpado and los labios.

Words with a twin

Four parts have a second word: el mentón for la barbilla, el cachete for la mejilla, la quijada for la mandíbula and el orificio nasal for la fosa nasal. Each counts when typed.

The head around the face

To label parts of the head in Spanish, the word for the head itself is la cabeza. Beyond the face, the drawing asks la sien, the temple, and la oreja, the outer ear.

Questions and answers

How do you say face in Spanish?

La cara, a feminine noun. El rostro, a masculine noun, is a second word for the face.

What is the difference between oreja and oído?

La oreja is the ear you can see: WordReference and Cambridge both define it as the outer part of el oído. El oído is the organ of hearing and the sense of hearing.

Is chin la barbilla or el mentón?

Both mean chin. WordReference explains el mentón with the word barbilla, and the Cambridge dictionary gives mentón as a synonym of barbilla. The drawing shows la barbilla, and el mentón counts when typed.

How do you say nostril in Spanish?

La fosa nasal, a feminine noun; the plural is las fosas nasales. El orificio nasal is also used, and WordReference adds la narina as the term of anatomy.

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