peso
/ˈpeɪsəʊ/noun
peso is spelled P-E-S-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, peso means “A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of peso is pesos.
How many letters and syllables are in peso?
| Letters | 4: P-E-S-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is peso?
Peso appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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).
How do you pronounce peso?
- UK /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
- /ˈpɛso/
Peso has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-ca-peso.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with peso
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: piso.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with peso?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as peso (/eɪsəʊ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pose, epos, sope.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of peso
- pesos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does peso mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
- 2
The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Peso in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense currency:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does peso come from?
Borrowed from Spanish peso.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).