foso
Spanish, noun
foso is spelled F-O-S-O (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,044th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “ditch, trench” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fosar. With an accent, fosó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fosar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Depresión de relativa profundidad practicada en una superficie”.
What does foso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineditch, trench
- 2
masculinemoat, fosse
- 3
masculinetrap
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fosar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fosar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Depresión de relativa profundidad practicada en una superficie. 2. Zanja que complementaba a las murallas de la Edad Media para aumentar su seguridad y evitar los asedios desde el exterior.
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 foso
- fosos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to foso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foso in Spanish?
foso appears 1.8 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).