tuco
"tuco" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tuco” is uncommon English (frequency #68,711 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,711
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tuco · tuco · English
tuco · rank #68,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,711
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH twining
Nearest frequency peer: twining (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “tuco”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- trendsetter
trendsetter
31,295 corpus weight
- truncation
truncation
31,292 corpus weight
- tuco
tuco
31,290 corpus weight
- twining
twining
31,289 corpus weight
- umbilicus
umbilicus
31,286 corpus weight
- ume
ume
31,285 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tuco” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tuco” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tuco is uncommon English at frequency #68,711 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tuco in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish tuco. The correct English form is tuco, spelled T-U-C-O.
Definition
- 1A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tuco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We ate ñoqui in a tuco sauce that they'd ordered already prepared, and Soriano and I drank wine, a De Lucca cabernet sauvignon, while Felip didn't drink anything at all […]
Customize your tuco sauce: add sliced mushrooms, diced aubergine or sliced spinach, or think of some ideas of your own.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tuco.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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