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peso

Spanish, noun

peso is spelled P-E-S-O (4 letters) and appears 89 times per million words in written Spanish, the 987th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “weight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pesar. With an accent, pesó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of pesar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fuerza, y magnitud de esta, con que la tierra atrae a un cuerpo”.

What does peso mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineweight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)

  2. 2

    masculineweight (a block of metal used in a balance)

  3. 3

    masculineweight class

  4. 4

    masculinepeso (unit of currency)

  5. 5

    masculineweight (importance or influence)

  6. 6

    masculineweight, burden, load, brunt (pressure)

  7. 7

    masculinescales, scale (device used to measure weight)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of pesar

verb

as pesó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of pesar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Fuerza, y magnitud de esta, con que la tierra atrae a un cuerpo. 2. Magnitud 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. 3. Cosa de mucho peso₁. 4. Pieza de peso conocido utilizada para calibrar una balanza u otro instrumento de medición.

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 peso

  • pesos plural

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

English words that translate to peso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is peso in Spanish?

peso appears 89 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).

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