peso
Portuguese, noun
peso is spelled P-E-S-O (4 letters) and appears 63 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,529th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pesar. With an accent, pêso is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “unidade monetária de diversos países, entre eles o México”.
What does peso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineweight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
- 2
masculineheaviness (the condition of being heavy)
- 3
masculineweight (heavy object lifted for strength training)
- 4
masculineshot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
- 5
masculineweight (importance or influence)
- 6
masculineemotional pressure
- 7
masculineweight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
- 8
masculineweight (value that multiplies a variable)
noun
- 1
masculinepeso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of pesar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of peso
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unidade monetária de diversos países, entre eles o México 2. o resultado da ação da gravidade sobre um corpo 3. peça de metal usada para determinar o peso de outras coisas 4. haste de metal com discos de metal nas pontas usada na prova de levantamento de pesos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of peso
- pesos plural
- pêso alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to peso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is peso in Portuguese?
peso appears 63 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).