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verso

Spanish, noun

verso is spelled V-E-R-S-O (5 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,670th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “verse, poem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of versar. With an accent, versó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of versar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En un poema, conjunto de palabras que forman una unidad y que tienen una cadencia o ritmo y, a menudo, medida”.

What does verso mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    versed

noun

  1. 1

    masculineverse, poem

  2. 2

    masculineverse, line (of a poem)

  3. 3

    masculineverso, reverse, back, overleaf (of a page)

  4. 4

    masculineverso, left-hand page

  5. 5

    masculinesmall culverin (kind of cannon)

  6. 6

    colloquialmasculinelie, story, porky

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of versar

verb

as versó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of versar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. En un poema, conjunto de palabras que forman una unidad y que tienen una cadencia o ritmo y, a menudo, medida. 2. Forma de escribir en la que las palabras llevan medida y cadencia. 3. Cada uno de los versículos de la Biblia. 4. Composición hecha en verso.

noun: 1. Antiguamente, pieza ligera de artillería, la mitad de pequeña que la culebrina.

noun: 1. Folio verso. 2. Por extensión, referido a una serie de funciones matemáticas que representan el complemento sobre la unidad con respecto a la otra función.

suffix: 1. Universo, totalidad (de).

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 verso

  • versa feminine
  • versos masculine plural
  • versas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to verso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is verso in Spanish?

verso appears 9.1 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).

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