trunco
Spanish, adjective
trunco is spelled T-R-U-N-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 86,552nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trunco is a Spanish adjective meaning “truncated, shortened, incomplete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of truncar. With an accent, truncó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of truncar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Truncado”.
What does trunco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
truncated, shortened, incomplete
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of truncar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of truncar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Truncado
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 trunco
- trunca feminine
- truncos masculine plural
- truncas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is trunco in Spanish?
trunco appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).