consumo
Spanish, noun
consumo is spelled C-O-N-S-U-M-O (7 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,476th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Consumo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “consumption (the act of eating, drinking or using)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of consumir. With an accent, consumó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of consumar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de consumir (uso de alimentos u otros bienes)”.
What does consumo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconsumption (the act of eating, drinking or using)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of consumir
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of consumar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of consumar
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 consumir (uso de alimentos u otros bienes). 2. Acción o efecto de consumir (uso de energía). 3. Hablando de caudales, de juros, libranzas o créditos contra la Real Hacienda: extinción. 4. En plural (consumos): Impuesto municipal a la introducción de diversos géneros en una población que serán vendidos o consumidos en ella.
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 consumo
- consumos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to consumo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is consumo in Spanish?
consumo appears 59 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).