urucu
Portuguese, noun/u.ɾuˈku/
urucu is spelled U-R-U-C-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urucu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of urucum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does urucu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of urucum
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of urucu
- urucus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce urucu?
- Brazil /u.ɾuˈku/
- Portugal /u.ɾuˈku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to urucu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is urucu in Portuguese?
urucu appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).