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moco

Spanish, noun

moco is spelled M-O-C-O (4 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20,906th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “mucus; bogey, bogie, booger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mocar. With an accent, mocó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mocar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Humor viscoso que es segregado por las membranas mucosas, especialmente la nasal”.

What does moco mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemucus; bogey, bogie, booger

  2. 2

    masculineslime

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of mocar

verb

as mocó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of mocar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Humor viscoso que es segregado por las membranas mucosas, especialmente la nasal. 2. Materia pegajosa presente en un líquido con apariencia de grumos que se forma por la descomposición de sustancias no disueltas. 3. Parte extrema del pabilo en una luz encendida. 4. Escoria que se desprende del hierro candente en una fragua cuando se martilla.

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 moco

  • mocos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to moco

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is moco in Spanish?

moco appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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