tapacubos
Spanish, noun/tapaˈkubos/
tapacubos is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “hubcap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Disco decorativo que se coloca sobre las llantas o rines de las ruedas de un automóvil”.
What does tapacubos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehubcap
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Disco decorativo que se coloca sobre las llantas o rines de las ruedas de un automóvil.
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.
How do you pronounce tapacubos?
- /tapaˈkubos/
- [t̪a.paˈku.β̞os]
- [t̪apaˈkuβ̞os]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tapacubos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tapacubos in Spanish?
tapacubos appears about once in every 15 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).