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fisgoneo

Spanish, noun

fisgoneo is spelled F-I-S-G-O-N-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Spanish, the 295,201st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fisgoneo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “snooping; nosing around” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fisgonear. With an accent, fisgoneó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fisgonear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de fisgonear, fisgar, husmear, tratar con insistencia o por hábito de averiguar, percibir o…”.

What does fisgoneo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesnooping; nosing around

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of fisgonear

verb

as fisgoneó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of fisgonear

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 fisgonear, fisgar, husmear, tratar con insistencia o por hábito de averiguar, percibir o enterarse de algo confidencial, oculto, o secreto. Actvidad propia del fisgón.

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 fisgoneo

  • fisgoneos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is fisgoneo in Spanish?

fisgoneo appears about once in every 72 million words in written Spanish.

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

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