nuño
Spanish, noun
nuño is spelled N-U-Ñ-O (4 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 29,514th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nuño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “sisyrinchium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, ñuño is a different word: “alternative form of nuño”.
What does nuño mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesisyrinchium
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of nuño
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Olsynium junceum, Olsynium philippii, Olsynium scirpoideum) Planta pequeña de flores amarillas orladas de un borde escarlata, tallos verde claro, de la familia de las Icacinaceae muy común en Santiago de Chile, en donde antaño cubría los claros de bosque y las llanuras como una alfombra mecida por el viento.
noun: 1. Mujer encargada de alimentar y cuidar un infante.
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 nuño
- nuños plural
- ñuño alternative
- ñuños plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is nuño in Spanish?
nuño appears 1.3 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).