verb · #255
to sing
Example: Canta en un coro.
She sings in a choir.
Spanish → English
cantar
cantar is Spanish for to sing.
What cantar means
How common is it?
cantar is ranked #255 of the 500 most common Spanish words. It sits in the second half of the list: still everyday vocabulary, but you will meet it less often than the first two hundred.
Nearby on the frequency list
Words with a similar frequency to cantar — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
- perder — to lose; to miss
- ganar — to win, to earn
- jugar — to play
- bailar — to dance
- reír — to laugh
- llorar — to cry
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Compiled and checked by the Flipkado team · Last updated 2026-08-22