carga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,309
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o que pode ser ou é transportado por pessoas, animais ou veículos Pronounced /ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/. It ranks #2,309 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with casa and caro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for carga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,309 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for carga, with forms such as "acrga", "cagra", and "carag". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "casa", "caro", "cria", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is carga, spelled C-A-R-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o que pode ser ou é transportado por pessoas, animais ou veículos
- 2aquilo que se carrega
- 3quantidade, peso
- 4pólvora ou projéteis de armas de fogo
- 5responsabilidade
- 6quantidade de elétrons em falta ou em excesso
- 7investida militar violenta
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrga,cagra,carag,cargga,carrga,ccarga,craga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carga
Misspelling Variants of "carga"
Frequency rank: #2,309 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: