How to Say "Grain" in Spanish

grano

/ˈɡɾano/masculine

The Spanish word for grain is grano.

grano refers to the harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops. It is the most common and standard translation for the English word grain.

Meaning: harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops (noun)

How does it change in a sentence?

The plural form of grano is granos.

/ˈɡɾano/

In many Spanish-speaking countries, the word grano is the standard term for a pimple or a skin blemish.
In a medical or pharmaceutical context, grano historically referred to a specific unit of weight based on a grain of wheat.
The Spanish word grano is a cognate of the English word 'grain', both descending from the Latin grānum.

El mejor cebo para aves es el grano de trigo.
The best bait for birds is wheat grain.
This sentence shows how to use grano when talking about bird bait.
Tatoeba #10517569 by saverius, translation #12268491 by mollydot
El centeno fue llamado el grano de la pobreza.
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
Tatoeba #180524 by cueyayotl, translation #1533 by Zifre
La niña curiosa arrancó una espiga de trigo y fue sacando los granos uno por uno, dejándolos caer en la tierra, para así observar cómo las hormigas se los iban llevando al hormiguero.
The curious girl yanked out a spike of wheat and was taking out each grain one by one, letting them fall on the earth, so as to observe how the ants were taking them to the anthill.
This sentence shows how to use the plural form granos to describe multiple grains being removed from a spike of wheat.
Tatoeba #5391510 by Shishir, translation #9317719 by DJ_Saidez
¿Quieres un grano de arroz?
Do you want a grain of rice?
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Elena and Alejandro are looking at food ingredients in a kitchen.

Sources

Wiktionary, “grain” translations and entries grano, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
Word origins: Wiktionary entries grano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.

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