tuso
Spanish, noun
tuso is spelled T-U-S-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish, the 197,982nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “dog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tusar. With an accent, tusó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tusar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Canis lupus familiaris) Variedad doméstica del lobo de muchas y diversas razas, compañero del hombre desde…”.
What does tuso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
docked, cropped (tailless, short-tailed)
- 2
pockmarked
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinedog
interjection
- 1
/ʘ/, tsch (a word or sound used to call or get the attention of a dog)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tusar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of tusar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Canis lupus familiaris) Variedad doméstica del lobo de muchas y diversas razas, compañero del hombre desde tiempos prehistóricos.
interjection: 1. Se emplea para llamar o espantar a un perro.
adjective: 1. Que tiene un rabo más corto de lo normal, o carece de él. 2. Marcado en la piel por las huellas de la viruela o una enfermedad similar.
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 tuso
- tusa feminine
- tusos masculine plural
- tusas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tuso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tuso in Spanish?
tuso appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).