Spanish: Sopa

Type: False Friends

False Cognate: soap

Meaning: soup

Hablé a la recepción del hotel y pedí sopa. Sí, me trajeron sopa pero en realidad ¡lo que quería era jabón! Me confundí porque la palabra que buscaba en inglés es “soap”. (I called the hotel reception desk and asked for “sopa.” Yes, the brought me soup but in reality what I wanted was soap. I got confused because the English word for “jabón” is "soap.")