acoso
Spanish, noun
acoso is spelled A-C-O-S-O (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,378th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acoso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “harassment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of acosar. With an accent, acosó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of acosar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de acosar”.
What does acoso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineharassment
- 2
masculinebullying
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of acosar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of acosar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de acosar. 2. Persecución o molestia sin descanso a una persona para lograr un fin. 3. Persecución a alguno con molestias insistentes. 4. Persecución a caballo de una res, generalmente previa a un derribo, y prueba de la fiereza de la misma.
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 acoso
- acosos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to acoso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acoso in Spanish?
acoso appears 14 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).