desnucar
Spanish, verb/desnuˈkaɾ/
desnucar is spelled D-E-S-N-U-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish, the 268,459th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desnucar is a Spanish verb meaning “to break someone's neck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desarticular los huesos de la nuca”.
What does desnucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break someone's neck
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Desarticular los huesos de la nuca 2. Matar a una persona o animal dándole un golpe en la nuca
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desnucar
- desnuco first-person present singular
- desnuqué first-person preterite singular
- desnucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desnucando gerund
- desnucada feminine participle past
- desnucados masculine participle past
- desnucadas feminine participle past
- desnucas indicative informal present
- desnucás indicative informal present
- desnuca indicative present singular
- desnucamos first-person indicative plural
- desnucáis indicative plural present
- desnucan indicative plural present
- desnucaba first-person imperfect indicative
- desnucabas imperfect indicative second-person
- desnucábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- desnucabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desnucar?
- /desnuˈkaɾ/
- [d̪ez.nuˈkaɾ]
- [d̪esnuˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desnucar in Spanish?
desnucar appears about once in every 59 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).