cucú
[kuˈku]
The verdict
“cucú” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #79,945 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,945
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Canto o voz que emiten el cuclillo, cuco₂ y otros cucúlidos (tipo de ave).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cucú |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈku] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cucú” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cucú is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈku]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,945 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Canto o voz que emiten el cuclillo, cuco₂ y otros cucúlidos (tipo de ave).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cucú, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cucú, spelled C-U-C-Ú.
Definition
- 1Canto o voz que emiten el cuclillo, cuco₂ y otros cucúlidos (tipo de ave).
This word in other languages
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cucú”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-U-C-Ú - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kuˈku] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.