uso
Spanish, noun
uso is spelled U-S-O (3 letters) and appears 240 times per million words in written Spanish, the 340th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Uso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of usar. With an accent, usó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of usar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de usar o de usarse”.
What does uso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineuse
- 2
masculineusage; habit
- 3
masculinewear (degradation)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of usar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of usar
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 usar o de usarse. 2. Función u objetivo general de una cosa. 3. Acción o manera de actuar que es práctica común y repetida en un lugar o tiempo determinados. 4. Derecho a obtener frutos o a beneficiarse de algo que es propiedad de otros.
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 uso
- usos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to uso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is uso in Spanish?
uso appears 240 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).