pucará
Spanish, noun
pucará is spelled P-U-C-A-R-Á (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 65,931st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pucará is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pukara (hilltop fortification)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, pucara is a different word: “alternative form of pucará”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fortín, fortificación de pirca que construían los indígenas en puntos estratégicos”.
What does pucará mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepukara (hilltop fortification)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of pucará
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fortín, fortificación de pirca que construían los indígenas en puntos estratégicos.
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 pucará
- pucarás plural
- pucara alternative
- pucaras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pucará in Spanish?
pucará appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).