cascanueces
Spanish, noun[kaskaˈnweses]
cascanueces is spelled C-A-S-C-A-N-U-E-C-E-S (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,884th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cascanueces is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “nutcracker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Herramienta con forma de pinza que, mediante la fuerza y palanca, sirve para romper las cáscaras de las…”.
What does cascanueces mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenutcracker
- 2
masculinenutcracker (bird)
- 3
colloquialmasculinemadcap, harebrained young man
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Herramienta con forma de pinza que, mediante la fuerza y palanca, sirve para romper las cáscaras de las nueces.
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.
How do you pronounce cascanueces?
- [kaskaˈnweses]
- [kaskanuˈeses]
- [kaskaˈnweθes]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cascanueces
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cascanueces in Spanish?
cascanueces appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).