careo
Spanish, noun
careo is spelled C-A-R-E-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 83,712th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Careo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “face-to-face meeting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of carear. With an accent, careó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of carear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de carear o de carearse”.
What does careo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineface-to-face meeting
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of carear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of carear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de carear o de carearse.
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 careo
- careos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is careo in Spanish?
careo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).