mocho
Spanish, noun
mocho is spelled M-O-C-H-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 37,997th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mocho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “mop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mochar. With an accent, mochó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mochar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Extremo romo y oblongo de un utensilio o herramienta, como el mango de un hacha o la culata de un arma larga”.
What does mocho mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mutilated, incomplete
- 2
hornless (of an animal that ordinarily has horns)
- 3
Mexicoslanghaving a hypocritical and ostentatious faith
- 4
cut very short (of hair, a pencil, etc.)
- 5
bald (with a shaved head) (synonym: calvo)
noun
- 1
masculinemop
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mochar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of mochar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Carente del remate o punta adecuado para su estructura. 2. Dicho de un animal normalmente cornudo, que carece de astas. 3. Con el cabello muy corto o rapado a cero. 4. De devoción ostentosa e hipócrita.
noun: 1. Extremo romo y oblongo de un utensilio o herramienta, como el mango de un hacha o la culata de un arma larga. 2. Utensilio formado por un mango largo rematado en una cabeza de fibras o tiras de tela absorbente, usado para lavar los suelos. 3. Variedad del español fuertemente influida por el inglés hablada en el sudoeste de los Estados Unidos.
noun: 1. Palanca selectora propia de los vehículos de doble tracción. 2. Moneda venezolana equivalente a 10 céntimos de bolívar.
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 mocho
- mocha feminine
- mochos masculine plural
- mochas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mocho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mocho in Spanish?
mocho appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).