huinca
Spanish, noun/ˈw̝inka/
huinca is spelled H-U-I-N-C-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 106,207th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Huinca is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Person who is not Mapuche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does huinca mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePerson who is not Mapuche
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Nombre que los mapuches dan a toda persona que no pertenece a su pueblo, sobre todo si es un enemigo. El estereotipo incluye los conceptos de usurpador, ladrón y mentiroso, entre otros. 2. Perteneciente o relativo a elementos de la cultura y formas de vida occidentales en contraposición a las mapuches, y en particular, a la cultura mayoritaria de Chile y Argentina. 3. Mapuche, como reacción burlesca al uso de huinca₁.
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 huinca
- huincas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce huinca?
- /ˈw̝inka/
- [ˈw̝ĩŋ.ka]
- [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝ĩŋka]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is huinca in Spanish?
huinca appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).