abuso
Spanish, noun
abuso is spelled A-B-U-S-O (5 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abuso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “abuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of abusar. With an accent, abusó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of abusar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de abusar”.
What does abuso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabuse
- 2
masculineoveruse
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of abusar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of abusar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y efecto de abusar. 2. Transgresión de los límites de la ética, el respeto y las buenas costumbres.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abuso
- abusos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abuso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abuso in Spanish?
abuso appears 23 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).