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stucco

noun, verb

stucco is spelled S-T-U-C-C-O: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stucco means “A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stucco is stuccoes or stuccos.

How many letters and syllables are in stucco?

Letters6: S-T-U-C-C-O
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is stucco?

Stucco appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce stucco?

  • US

Stucco has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-stucco.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stucco

  • stuccoes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stuccos plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stucchi plural
  • stuccoing participle, present
  • stuccoed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stucco mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.

  2. 2

    A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.

  3. 3

    A work made of stucco; stuccowork.

verb

  1. 1

    To coat or decorate with stucco.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stucco in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchstuc (a plaster that is used to coat interior or…), stucquer, stuquer ((transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco)
GermanPutz, Wandputz, Putzmörtel, Aussenputz, Innenputz (a plaster that is used to coat interior or…), Stuck (work made of stucco; stuccowork)
Spanishestuco (a plaster that is used to coat interior or…), estucar ((transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco), estucado (work made of stucco; stuccowork)
Portugueseestucar ((transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does stucco come from?

Borrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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