peso
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#998
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
peso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fuerza, y magnitud de esta, con que la tierra atrae a un cuerpo. Pronounced [ˈpeso]. It ranks #998 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for peso is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeso]. Corpus data places it at rank #998 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for peso, with forms such as "epso", "peos", and "pesso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "po", "pro", "pez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is peso, spelled P-E-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fuerza, y magnitud de esta, con que la tierra atrae a un cuerpo.
- 2Magnitud de la fuerza por la que un cuerpo atrae a otro en virtud de la ley de gravedad, proporcional a la masa de estos e inversamente proporcional al cuadrado de su distancia.
- 3Cosa de mucho peso₁.
- 4Pieza de peso conocido utilizada para calibrar una balanza u otro instrumento de medición.
- 5Valor que expresa la importancia relativa de una cantidad en un conjunto.
- 6Categoría en la que un deportista toma parte en las competiciones de acuerdo a su peso.
- 7Unidad monetaria de Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, las Filipinas, México, la República Dominicana y Uruguay.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epso,peos,pesso,ppeso,pseo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peso
Misspelling Variants of "peso"
Frequency rank: #998 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "peso"?
What does "peso" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "peso"?
How do you pronounce "peso"?
What language does "peso" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: