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FSBO

noun

FSBO is a noun meaning “Acronym of for sale by owner, referring to the property” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-S-B-O, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of FSBO is FSBOs.

What does FSBO mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of for sale by owner, referring to the property.

    That's a bad neighborhood for brokers: too many FSBOs.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of FSBO

  • FSBOs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is FSBO?

FSBO appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.

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