Talk:Secco/@comment-38233170-20191031051447/@comment-44359563-20191108214805

It depends on the vowel following the CC.

It's generally a K sound unless it's followed by i or e.

Which is why it's Seh-KO, -cco doesn't make a "cho" cound. (it's also why Ghiaccio is pronounced "cho" at the end, because the -cci does make the "ch" sound, rather than a hard C/K.

(take this with a grain of salt, Italian isn't my first language - there's proably exceptions but that's the general rule)