cargo
Spanish, noun
cargo is spelled C-A-R-G-O (5 letters) and appears 141 times per million words in written Spanish, the 605th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cargo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “charge, burden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cargar. With an accent, cargó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cargar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Puesto de responsabilidad en un sistema organizativo”.
What does cargo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecharge, burden
- 2
masculineposition, post
- 3
masculinedebit
- 4
masculinecharge
noun
- 1
masculinehigher-up
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cargar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cargar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Puesto de responsabilidad en un sistema organizativo. 2. Persona que lo ocupa. 3. Pago y anotación del mismo que debe hacerse de una cuenta.
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 cargo
- cargos plural
- carga feminine
- cargas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cargo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cargo in Spanish?
cargo appears 141 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).