cucurucho
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,031
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cucurucho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lámina de papel, cartón o bien de barquillo (galleta) enrollada en forma de cono que contiene dulces, helados u otros objetos pequeños. Pronounced [kukuˈɾut͡ʃo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cucurucho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kukuˈɾut͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cucurucho is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kukuˈɾut͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,031 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cucurucho in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cucurucho, spelled C-U-C-U-R-U-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lámina de papel, cartón o bien de barquillo (galleta) enrollada en forma de cono que contiene dulces, helados u otros objetos pequeños.
- 2Sombrero de cartón de forma cónica que usan penitentes y disciplinantes en Semana Santa.
- 3La parte más alta de un árbol, una casa, un edificio, etc.
- 4Colina (elevación natural de un terreno inferior a una montaña) en forma de cono.
- 5Cumbre de un monte.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #66,031 in Spanish
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