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tango

Spanish, noun

tango is spelled T-A-N-G-O (5 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,091st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tango is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “tango (ballroom dance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tangar. With an accent, tangó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tangar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Recinto en que los tratantes alojaban a los esclavos negros”.

What does tango mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetango (ballroom dance)

  2. 2

    masculinea style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of tangar

verb

as tangó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of tangar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Recinto en que los tratantes alojaban a los esclavos negros. 2. Fiesta popular al aire libre, con música y baile, especialmente la que celebraban los esclavos negros. 3. Música que se tocaba en los tangos₁. 4. Género musical, en ritmo de dos por cuatro, típico de la región rioplatense.

noun: 1. Juego consistente en intentar derribar un bolo o cilindro arrojándole tejos. 2. Cilindro o bolo de dicho juego.

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 tango

  • tangos plural

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

English words that translate to tango

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

How common is tango in Spanish?

tango appears 7.2 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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