cano
Spanish, adjective
cano is spelled C-A-N-O (4 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,318th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cano is a Spanish adjective meaning “hoary, white-haired, grey-haired” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, caño is a different word: “tube or pipe”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que tiene el cabello con canas”.
What does cano mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hoary, white-haired, grey-haired
- 2
ancient, old (of a person)
- 3
rarewhite, snow-white, milky white
noun
- 1
masculinetube or pipe
- 2
masculinespout
- 3
masculinegutter
- 4
masculinedrain
- 5
masculinenavigation channel
- 6
masculinenutmeg, the playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent
- 7
colloquialmasculinejoint
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tubo de metal, vidrio o barro, a modo de cañuto. 2. Elemento cilíndrico longitudinal utilizado para transportar agua u otros fluidos. 3. Cigarrillo de marihuana. 4. Cauce que comunica dos ríos, o bien puede ser un río con uno o dos brazos de río. En época de sequía el caño puede perder sus aguas.
adjective: 1. Que tiene el cabello con canas. 2. Anciano o antiguo. 3. Blanco.
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 cano
- caños plural
- cana feminine
- canos masculine plural
- canas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cano
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cano in Spanish?
cano appears 4.8 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).