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taco

Spanish, noun

taco is spelled T-A-C-O (4 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14,293rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Taco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tacar. With an accent, tacó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tacar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pedazo de madera o metal, corto y grueso, que se encaja en algún hueco”.

What does taco mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepeg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)

  2. 2

    masculinedowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)

  3. 3

    colloquialmasculinebilliards

  4. 4

    masculineslangbilliards player

  5. 5

    colloquialmasculinepool hall

  6. 6

    masculinepolo-stick; mallet

  7. 7

    masculinestopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)

  8. 8

    masculineheel (of a shoe)

noun

  1. 1

    Mexicomasculinetaco

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of tacar

verb

as tacó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of tacar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pedazo de madera o metal, corto y grueso, que se encaja en algún hueco. 2. Pequeño bulto de estopa o papel que se usaba en las antiguas armas de fuego entre la bala y la pólvora. 3. Baqueta usada en las antiguas armas de fuego. 4. Palo largo especialmente modelado para golpear las bolas en el billar y juegos similares.

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 taco

  • tacos plural

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

English words that translate to taco

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

How common is taco in Spanish?

taco appears 3.9 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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