The 27 letters
The small grey text is the letter's name (what you call it). Click a sound that is a link to open its own page.
Digraphs: two letters, one sound
These are not letters of the alphabet, so the alphabet alone will not teach them, but they are very frequent. (ch and ll were separate letters until 1994, and many older textbooks still list them that way.)
chico — Unaspirated, unlike the Mandarin ch.
llave — /ʝ/ in most regions (same as y); /ʃ/ in Argentina and Uruguay.
perro — Between vowels only, always trilled; contrasts with single r (pero / perro).
guitarra — gu keeps /ɡ/ before e, i; the u is then silent.
queso — q is always followed by ue / ui, and the u is silent.
pingüino — In güe / güi the ü is pronounced — the opposite of gu.
Every sound on this site
Click a cell to open that sound. Dark cells have their own page.
Where this page comes from
Letter names follow the Real Academia Española's post-2010 standard: be (no longer be larga), uve (no longer ve), ye (no longer i griega). The traditional names are given in brackets as well — many textbooks and teachers still use them, and leaving them out makes students think they are hearing a different letter.
No sound is invented just to make a cell clickable. Spanish does have [ð] (the d in nada), but it is an allophone of /d/, not a separate phoneme. So d is listed with /d/ only, and the allophone is covered on the soft b / d / ɡ page.
w and x have no page of their own (they occur only in loanwords and place names), so those sounds are shown in a grey dashed box and are not links — the page says so plainly rather than offering a link that goes nowhere.