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Yes. The word peso is a Scrabble US word. The word peso is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word peso is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

EPOS,OPES,PESO,POSE,

3-letter words (7 found)

OES,OPE,OPS,OSE,PES,POS,SOP,

2-letter words (7 found)

ES,OE,OP,OS,PE,PO,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 19 words from peso according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of peso

peso epso pseo speo espo sepo peos epos poes opes eops oeps psoe spoe pose opse sope ospe esop seop eosp oesp soep osep

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word peso. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in peso.

Definitions and meaning of peso

peso

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
  • (PH) IPA(key): /ˈpɛsoʊ/, [ˈpɛso]
  • Rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ, (PH) -ɛsoʊ

Noun

peso (plural pesos)

  1. (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
  2. The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.

Synonyms

  • adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • ESOP, PEOs, epos, opes, peos, poes, pose, posé, sope

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.zu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.zo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpe.zo]

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛso]
  • Rhymes: -ɛso
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso n

  1. peso (any of multiple currencies)

Declension

Further reading

  • peso in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • peso in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • peso in Internetová jazyková příručka

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Noun

peso

  1. (mexican) peso

Esperanto

Etymology

From Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpeso]
  • Rhymes: -eso
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso (accusative singular peson, plural pesoj, accusative plural pesojn)

  1. (numismatics) peso

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeso/, [ˈpe̞s̠o̞]
  • Rhymes: -eso
  • Syllabification(key): pe‧so

Noun

peso

  1. peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)

Declension

Further reading

  • “peso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • pose

French

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. peso

Further reading

  • “peso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight
  2. peso (unit of currency)
Derived terms
  • peso molecular
  • pesos e contrapesos
  • pesos e medidas
Related terms
  • pesar

Etymology 2

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Italian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
  • Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
  • Hyphenation: pé‧so

Noun

peso m (plural pesi)

  1. weight
Related terms
  • pesalettere
  • pesante
  • pesare
  • pesata
  • pesiera
  • pesista
  • pesistica

Etymology 2

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
  • Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
  • Hyphenation: pé‧so

Adjective

peso (feminine pesa, masculine plural pesi, feminine plural pese)

  1. (informal, Tuscan) heavy
  2. (informal, Tuscan, figurative) oppressive

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
  • Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
  • Hyphenation: pé‧so

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesare

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.zo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛzo
  • Hyphenation: pè‧so

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. peso

References

Anagrams

  • epos, pose

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoene)

  1. a peso (currency unit of several Latin American countries, as well as the Philippines)

References

  • “peso” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)

  1. a peso (currency unit, as above)

References

  • “peso” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“I weigh”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpezo/

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight

Synonyms

  • pesadumbre f

Related terms

  • pesado (“heavy”)
  • pesar (“to weigh”)

Descendants

  • Spanish: peso

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso, from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.sɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsɔ
  • Syllabification: pe‧so

Noun

peso n (indeclinable)

  1. peso (designation for specific currency)

Further reading

  • peso in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • peso in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).

Alternative forms

  • pêso (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • (Porto) IPA(key): /ˈp(j)e.zu/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
  2. heaviness (the condition of being heavy)
  3. weight (object used for its heaviness)
    1. (weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)
    2. (athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
  4. (figurative) weight (importance or influence)
  5. (figurative) emotional pressure
  6. (sports) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
  7. (mathematics) weight (value that multiplies a variable)
  8. (typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:peso.

Synonyms
  • (heaviness): pesadez (less common)
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "heaviness"): leveza
Derived terms
Related terms
  • pesado
  • pesagem
  • pesar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Noun

peso m (plural peso)

  1. peso

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeso/ [ˈpe.so]
  • Rhymes: -eso
  • Syllabification: pe‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of the semi-learned pienso.

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. (physics) weight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)
  2. weight (a block of metal used in a balance)
  3. weight class
  4. peso (unit of currency)
  5. weight (importance or influence)
  6. weight, burden, load, brunt (pressure)
  7. scales, scale (device used to measure weight)
    Synonyms: báscula, balanza
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Bikol Central: piso
  • → English: peso
  • → Basque: pisu
  • → Cebuano: piso
  • → Tagalog: piso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Further reading

  • “peso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeso/, [ˈpɛ.so]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of piso

Source: wiktionary.org