sorpasso
Spanish, noun/soɾˈpaso/
sorpasso is spelled S-O-R-P-A-S-S-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 118,609th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sorpasso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “overtaking (situation where a political party manages to get more votes that a party that was previously more successful than it…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sorpasso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineovertaking (situation where a political party manages to get more votes that a party that was previously more successful than it, especially if both parties are perceived to share parts of their ideology)
- 2
masculineovertaking (situation where a country or region surpasses another one in terms of GDP or GDP per capita)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sorpasso
- sorpassos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sorpasso?
- /soɾˈpaso/
- [soɾˈpa.so]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sorpasso in Spanish?
sorpasso appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).