carbonara
Spanish, noun
carbonara is spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-A-R-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 91,681st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carbonara is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “carbonara (sauce)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of carbonar. With an accent, carbonará is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of carbonar”.
What does carbonara mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecarbonara (sauce)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of carbonar
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of carbonar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. A la carbonara.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of carbonara
- carbonaras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is carbonara in Spanish?
carbonara appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).