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Which to use

“carga” and “cora” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,469
“carga” frequency rank
#18,776
“cora” frequency rank
20245
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature carga cora
Definition Acción o efecto de cargar. Antigua división territorial de la España musulmana.

Where the eye mixes carga and cora

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
carga
4 ch
cora

Look-alike desk: carga vs cora

A purely visual mix-up. carga ([ˈkaɾɣ̞a]) and cora ([ˈkoɾa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20245, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

carga is recorded at frequency rank #1,469, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈkaɾɣ̞a]. cora is at rank #18,776, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈkoɾa].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 20245, this pair ranks #260,180 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of carga vs cora

Shared letters: acr. Private to "carga": g. Private to "cora": o.

"carga" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "cora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cargaacrga · cagra · carag · cargga · carrga · ccarga · craga
  • coraccora · coar · croa · ocra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "carga" for "cora" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ˈkaɾɣ̞a] versus [ˈkoɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "carga" or "cora"?
"carga" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,469 in our Spanish list, against #18,776 for "cora". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "carga" and "cora" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "carga" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cora" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #260,180 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "carga" and "cora" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coin vs cora". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #260,180 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list