voseo

Spanish, noun

voseo is spelled V-O-S-E-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 81,768th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voseo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “in Spanish dialects, the use of the pronoun vos as opposed to tú” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of vosear. With an accent, voseó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of vosear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Empleo de vos como pronombre de segunda persona singular familiar acompañado de formas especiales de…”.