The Spanish language employs a wide range of swear words that vary between Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation.

Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines.

The five most common Cantonese profanities, vulgar words in the Cantonese language are diu, gau, lan, tsat and hai, where the first ("diu") literally means fuck, "hai" is a word for female genitalia and "gau" refers to male genitalia.

Quebec French profanities, known as (singular: ; , "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of Aroostook County, Maine, in the United States). are considered stronger in Québec than the foul expressions common to other varieties of French, which centre on sex and excrement (such as , "shit").

Profanity in the Japanese language can pertain to scatological references or aim to put down the listener by negatively commenting on their ability, intellect, or appearance.

The Korean language has a number of words that are considered profanity.

Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother.

Profanity in Finnish is used in the form of intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs and particles, and is based on varying taboos, with religious vulgarity being very prominent.

Dutch profanity can be divided into several categories.

The Polish language, like most others, contains swear words and profanity.