carranga
Spanish, noun/kaˈranɡa/
carranga is spelled C-A-R-R-A-N-G-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Spanish, the 229,525th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carranga is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a style of music from rural Colombia, using guitars, tiple, requinto and guacharaca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does carranga mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea style of music from rural Colombia, using guitars, tiple, requinto and guacharaca
- 2
femininea carranga song
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce carranga?
- /kaˈranɡa/
- [kaˈrãŋ.ɡa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is carranga in Spanish?
carranga appears about once in every 42 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).