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chanta

Spanish, noun

chanta is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “liar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of chantar. With an accent, chantá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of chantar”.

What does chanta mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialmasculineliar

noun

  1. 1

    femininefake, nonsense

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialfemininemasculinemissing at least one tooth

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as chantá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of chantar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que no tiene reparos en engañar o mentir para obtener provecho.

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 chanta

  • chantas plural

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

English words that translate to chanta

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

How common is chanta in Spanish?

chanta appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).