gasto
Spanish, noun
gasto is spelled G-A-S-T-O (5 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,828th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gasto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “expenditure, cost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of gastar. With an accent, gastó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of gastar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de gastar”.
What does gasto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexpenditure, cost
- 2
masculinespending, expense
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of gastar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of gastar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y efecto de gastar 2. Volumen o suma que se ha gastado 3. Egreso monetario. No tiene retorno a diferencia de la inversión. Ergo, se considera un pasivo.
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 gasto
- gastos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gasto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gasto in Spanish?
gasto appears 30 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).