carga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,469
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de cargar. Pronounced [ˈkaɾɣ̞a]. It ranks #1,469 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with CRA and casa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,469 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for carga, with forms such as "acrga", "cagra", and "carag". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRA", "casa", "CREA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is carga, spelled C-A-R-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de cargar.
- 2Aquello que puede ser transportado por personas, animales o vehículos.
- 3Cantidad de una sustancia necesaria para el funcionamiento de ciertos utensilios, que ha de ser repuesta tras agotarse.
- 4Envase o recipiente que contiene la carga₃. ^([cita requerida]).
- 5Cantidad de material explosivo necesario para obtener una detonación en un arma de fuego o en la cámara de una mina.
- 6Cualquier cosa que hace peso sobre otra.
- 7Responsabilidad o sufrimiento que soporta una persona.
- 8Cantidad de electricidad positiva o negativa en un cuerpo determinada por un exceso o deficiencia de electrones.
- 9Medida tradicional española de capacidad de áridos equivalente a 3 o 4 fanegas, dependiendo de la zona.
- 10Embestida violenta de un ejército o cuerpo policial.
- 11Sujeción de una persona o de un bien, a una obligación legal concreta de carácter público, a una responsabilidad o a un gravamen patrimonial.
- 12la cantidad de material en suspensión que lleva una corriente de agua.
- 13Desplazamiento de un jugador producido por el choque violento de un rival.
- 14Acción o efecto de cargar₁₀ un archivo, un programa, un cd, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrga,cagra,carag,cargga,carrga,ccarga,craga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carga
Misspelling Variants of "carga"
Frequency rank: #1,469 in Spanish
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