sobregiro
Spanish, noun
sobregiro is spelled S-O-B-R-E-G-I-R-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 114,759th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobregiro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “overdraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sobregirar. With an accent, sobregiró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of sobregirar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de sobregirar o sobregirarse (gastar más de los fondos disponibles o límites establecidos…”.
What does sobregiro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoverdraft
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sobregirar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of sobregirar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de sobregirar o sobregirarse (gastar más de los fondos disponibles o límites establecidos para una cuenta o presupuesto). 2. Por extensión, saldo negativo que los bancos permiten sobre las cuentas corrientes; es considerado entre los métodos de financiamiento más costosos.
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 sobregiro
- sobregiros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sobregiro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobregiro in Spanish?
sobregiro appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).