lucumí
Spanish, noun/lukuˈmi/
lucumí is spelled L-U-C-U-M-Í (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish, the 141,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lucumí is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Lucumí (a form of Yoruba used as a liturgical language in santería, a syncretic religion of Cuba)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does lucumí mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineLucumí (a form of Yoruba used as a liturgical language in santería, a syncretic religion of Cuba)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce lucumí?
- /lukuˈmi/
- [lu.kuˈmi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lucumí in Spanish?
lucumí appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).