en cuclillas

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /en kuˈkliʝas/ [ẽŋ kuˈkli.ʝas]

• IPA^(key): /en kuˈkliʝas/ [ẽŋ kuˈkli.ʝas] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /en kuˈkliʎas/ [ẽŋ kuˈkli.ʎas] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /en kuˈkliʃas/ [ẽŋ kuˈkli.ʃas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /en kuˈkliʒas/ [ẽŋ kuˈkli.ʒas] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: en cu‧cli‧llas

Adverb

en cuclillas

1. (idiomatic) squatting

Further reading

• “en cuclillas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025