cuca
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,033
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Genitales internos y externos —es decir, vagina y vulva— femeninos. Pronounced [ˈkuka]. Often confused with cup and cum.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuca is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuka]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,033 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuca, with forms such as "ccua", "ccuca", and "cuac". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cum", "cut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cuca, spelled C-U-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitales internos y externos —es decir, vagina y vulva— femeninos.
- 2Órgano que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, de forma eréctil, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto génitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sólo se extiende durante la excreción y la cópula; en el ser humano no es retráctil. Está compuesto en su mayor parte por tejidos esponjosos, llamados cuerpos cavernosos, que al saturarse de sangre producen la erección.
- 3Acción de masturbarse.
- 4Cualquier animal invertebrado de forma tubular o aplanada pero siempre elongada y ápodo, sea ésta su forma adulta —como en los anélidos, nematodos y platelmintos— o una fase previa —como en las larvas de muchos insectos.
- 5(Ardea cocoi) Ave zancuda de gran tamaño y plumaje grisáceo a gris azulado, que habita zonas húmedas en todo el mundo. Es de hábitos nocturnos y huidizos, formando grupos pequeños y nidificando en la copa de los árboles. Alcanza los 120 cm de altura, con el largo cuello de color blanco y corona y nuca negro intenso, así como el pecho. Las remeras son asimismo negruzcas. El pico es de color amarillento, largo, adaptado a la captura de los crustáceos y peces que conforman su alimento.
- 6Ave legendaria y parcialmente antropomórfica de la mitología mapuche, que puede ser de buen o mal agüero según su color.
- 7Furgón policial.
- 8Galleta dulce de harina de trigo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccua,ccuca,cuac,cucca,ucca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuca
Misspelling Variants of "cuca"
Frequency rank: #38,033 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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