Skip to main content
PlainSpell

nuco

Spanish, noun

nuco is spelled N-U-C-O (4 letters). Nuco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, ñuco is a different word: “amputee who is missing a finger or fingers”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Asio flammeus suinda) Subespecie de búho campestre, que se distribuye en la mitad austral de América del Sur”.

What does nuco mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineshort-eared owl (Asio flammeus)

noun

as ñuco
  1. 1

    masculineamputee who is missing a finger or fingers

  2. 2

    masculinestump or stub left over from an amputated part of the body

  3. 3

    masculinesynonym of nuco.

adjective

as ñuco
  1. 1

    having small horns (said of bovines)

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. (Asio flammeus suinda) Subespecie de búho campestre, que se distribuye en la mitad austral de América del Sur.

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 nuco

  • nucos plural
  • ñucos plural
  • ñuca feminine
  • ñucas feminine plural

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

What to look up after nuco