cuculí
[kukuˈli]
The verdict
“cuculí” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Columbina picui, Zenaida meloda) Ave columbiforme (similar a la paloma) nativa de América del Sur. Es abundante desde Colombia hasta el sur de Argentina y Chile. Su plumaje es poco vistoso; muestr...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuculi · cuculí · Spanish
cuculí · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuculí |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kukuˈli] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuculí” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuculí is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kukuˈli]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Columbina picui, Zenaida meloda) Ave columbiforme (similar a la paloma) nativa de América del Sur. Es abundante desde Colombia hasta el sur de Argentina y Chile. Su plumaje es poco vistoso; muestr...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cuculí, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cuculí, spelled C-U-C-U-L-Í.
Definition
- 1(Columbina picui, Zenaida meloda) Ave columbiforme (similar a la paloma) nativa de América del Sur. Es abundante desde Colombia hasta el sur de Argentina y Chile. Su plumaje es poco vistoso; muestra la cabeza grisácea y el dorso gris a castaño. La garganta tiene un collar blanquecino. Las alas son pardogrisáceas, con motas negras o azul muy oscuro; abiertas al volar se distinguen dos bandas negras y una blanca. La cola muestra una orla blanca bien visible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuculí appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No podía faltar en esa hora el arrullo de los cuculís o palomas cordilleranas.
El yaraví -dice Sicramio- debe reflejar el canto de las cuculíes y el de las aves agoreras.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.