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corto

Spanish, noun

corto is spelled C-O-R-T-O (5 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,576th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “A type of coffee made out of roughly 70% milk and 30% coffee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cortar. With an accent, cortó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cortar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cortometraje”.

What does corto mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    short (having a small distance from one end to another)

  2. 2

    short (having little duration)

  3. 3

    colloquialdim-witted, slow

  4. 4

    cut

  5. 5

    A type of coffee made out of roughly 70% milk and 30% coffee

noun

  1. 1

    masculineA type of coffee made out of roughly 70% milk and 30% coffee

noun

  1. 1

    masculineshort (short film)

noun

  1. 1

    masculineshort (short circuit)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea glass of pure liquor

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of cortar

verb

as cortó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of cortar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Pequeño, especialmente en cuanto a la longitud, duración o extensión, pero también en cuanto a otra dimensión en comparación con otros de su clase o género. 2. Que en su trayectoria no alcanza el objetivo deseado. 3. Falto de iniciativa, de inteligencia o de ánimo. 4. Escaso o defectuoso: que le queda faltando.

noun: 1. Cortometraje.

noun: 1. Cortocircuito.

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 corto

  • corta feminine
  • cortos masculine plural
  • cortas feminine plural
  • cortísimo superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to corto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is corto in Spanish?

corto appears 55 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).

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