so
Spanish, adverb
so is spelled S-O (2 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). So is a Spanish adverb meaning “blithering, bloody” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, SO is a different word: “abbreviation of sudoeste; southwest”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Intensifica las cualidades, normalmente negativas, del sustantivo o adjetivo al que modifica”.
What does so mean in English?
preposition
- 1
archaicunder
adverb
- 1
derogatoryblithering, bloody
Near-synonym: pedazo
interjection
- 1
USso
interjection
- 1
whoa!
noun
- 1
masculineabbreviation of sudoeste; southwest
- 2
masculineabbreviation of sistema operativo
prefix
- 1
sub-
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Intensifica las cualidades, normalmente negativas, del sustantivo o adjetivo al que modifica.
preposition: 1. Bajo, debajo de.
interjection: 1. Úsase para detener los caballos. 2. Úsa para espantar a las gallinas.
interjection: 1. Úsase para hacer callar.
adjective: 1. Variante de su
prefix: 1. Variante anticuada de sub-.
abbreviation: 1. Sitio del horizonte equidistante del Sur y del Oeste.
abbreviation: 1. Sistema operativo.
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 so
- son- alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to so
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is so in Spanish?
so appears 26 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).