cucuy
Spanish, noun/kuˈkui/
cucuy is spelled C-U-C-U-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish, the 195,910th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cucuy is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bogeyman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cucuy mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebogeyman
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cucuy
- cucuyes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cucuy?
- /kuˈkui/
- [kuˈkui̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cucuy
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cucuy in Spanish?
cucuy appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).