porteo
Spanish, noun
porteo is spelled P-O-R-T-E-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 150,504th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Porteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “carrying; carriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of portear. With an accent, porteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of portear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Porteo natural: llevar en un portabebés, en vez de en carricoche, sillita u otro medio”.
What does porteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarrying; carriage
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of portear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of portear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Porteo natural: llevar en un portabebés, en vez de en carricoche, sillita u otro medio.
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 porteo
- porteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is porteo in Spanish?
porteo appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).