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carrego

Portuguese, noun/kaˈʁe.ɡu/

carrego is spelled C-A-R-R-E-G-O (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,653rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carrego is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “load, weight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of carregar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de carregar”.

What does carrego mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineload, weight

  2. 2

    informalmasculineburden

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of carregar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ato de carregar 2. obrigação 3. acento agudo 4. sensação de peso no estômago causada por alimentos de difícil digestão ou que fazem mal à saúde

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of carrego

  • carregos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce carrego?

  • Brazil /kaˈʁe.ɡu/
  • Brazil [kaˈhe.ɡu]
  • /kaˈʁe.ɡu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is carrego in Portuguese?

carrego appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.

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

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