culto
Spanish, noun/ˈkulto/
culto is spelled C-U-L-T-O (5 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,767th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “worship (the devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Manifestación de respeto y amor hacia lo sagrado, que a menudo se expresa en homenajes, ritos y ceremonias…”.
What does culto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
educated; cultured
- 2
learned; scholarly
- 3
rarecultivated
noun
- 1
masculineworship (the devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object)
- 2
masculineworship; ritual, rite (the religious ceremonies that express devotion)
- 3
masculinecult (a group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity)
película de culto
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que tiene instrucción o cultura. Que ha leído y conoce información a fondo sobre muchos temas. 2. Se dice de las tierras o las plantas cultivadas, es decir, que se siembran y hacen producir para beneficio humano. 3. Se aplicaba a quienes practicaban el culteranismo.
noun: 1. Manifestación de respeto y amor hacia lo sagrado, que a menudo se expresa en homenajes, ritos y ceremonias específicas. 2. Aprecio, admiración o cariño respetuosos e intensos hacia algo. 3. Acción o efecto de cultivar (hacer crecer lo vivo, desarrollar el conocimiento, el talento y el saber).
adverb: 1. Con cultura de estilo.
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 culto
- culta feminine
- cultos masculine plural
- cultas feminine plural
- cultísimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culto?
- /ˈkulto/
- [ˈkul̪.t̪o]
- [ˈkul̪t̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to culto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is culto in Spanish?
culto appears 21 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).