fosa
Spanish, noun
fosa is spelled F-O-S-A (4 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,412th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fosa is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “moat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of fosar. With an accent, fosá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of fosar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sepulcro”.
What does fosa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemoat
- 2
femininecavity
- 3
femininegrave
- 4
femininepit
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of fosar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sepulcro. 2. Excavación alrededor de una estructura. 3. cada una de las cavidades de un organismo. 4. un valle o zona que se encuentra por debajo del nivel del terreno circundante o de referencia.
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 fosa
- fosas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fosa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fosa in Spanish?
fosa appears 4.3 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).