chueco
Spanish, adjective/ˈt͡ʃweko/
chueco is spelled C-H-U-E-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 60,585th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chueco is a Spanish adjective meaning “crooked, bent, curved (not straight, having one or more bends or angles)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que tiene las rodillas juntas y los pies más separados que éstas, la condición anatómica llamada genu valgum”.
What does chueco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Latin-Americacrooked, bent, curved (not straight, having one or more bends or angles)
- 2
Latin-Americacrooked, oblique, (not at right angles, horizontal or vertical)
- 3
Mexicoslanghot, stolen
- 4
Latin-Americadevious
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que tiene las rodillas juntas y los pies más separados que éstas, la condición anatómica llamada genu valgum. 2. Que tiene las piernas torcidas o arqueadas de modo que no logra juntar las rodillas, la condición anatómica llamada genu varum. 3. Que no está o no sigue un curso recto. 4. Por analogía, que no obra con rectitud moral.
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 chueco
- chueca feminine
- chuecos masculine plural
- chuecas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chueco?
- /ˈt͡ʃweko/
- [ˈt͡ʃwe.ko]
- [ˈt͡ʃweko]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chueco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chueco in Spanish?
chueco 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).