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sesgo

Spanish, noun

sesgo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bias, skew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sesgar. With an accent, sesgó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of sesgar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Inclinación, oblicuidad o torcimiento”.

What does sesgo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    slanting, sloping

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebias, skew

  2. 2

    masculineslant, slope

  3. 3

    masculinetwist (in a story)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of sesgar

verb

as sesgó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of sesgar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Oblicuo o al bies.

noun: 1. Inclinación, oblicuidad o torcimiento. 2. Orientación o dirección que toma un asunto o negocio. 3. Dicho de una determinada información o interpretación: Parcialidad, orientación tendenciosa. 4. Error que aparece en los resultados de un estudio debido a factores que dependen de la recolección, análisis, interpretación, publicación o revisión de los datos que pueden conducir a conclusiones que son sistemáticamente diferentes de la verdad o incorrectas acerca de los objetivos de una investigación.

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 sesgo

  • sesga feminine
  • sesgos masculine plural
  • sesgas feminine plural

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

English words that translate to sesgo

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

How common is sesgo in Spanish?

sesgo appears 3.1 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).