cucu
Portuguese, noun/kuˈku/
cucu is spelled C-U-C-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cucu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dark-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cucu mean in English?
interjection
- 1
Imitating the cry of the cuckoo.
- 2
Used to express the arrival of a new person or something unexpected.
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinedark-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus)
- 2
masculinecry of the cuckoo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cucu
- cucus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cucu?
- Brazil /kuˈku/
- Portugal /kuˈku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cucu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cucu in Portuguese?
cucu appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).