The N5 words
The first 667 words: greetings, numbers, time, family, food, places, and the verbs and adjectives of every day. Many are still written in kana at this level, and that is fine: learn the word first, the kanji will follow.
あ135 words
か117 words
さ87 words
た96 words
な36 words
は91 words
ま50 words
- 門もんgate
- 問題もんだいquestion (e.g. on a test); problem
や28 words
ら18 words
わ9 words
There is no official list: the JLPT stopped publishing one in 2010. This is Jonathan Waller's list, the one most study sites use, with readings and meanings from JMdict. A word on an earlier level's list is not repeated here.
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.