caique
/kɑːˈiːk/noun
caique is a noun meaning “A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-I-Q-U-E, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of caique is caïques or caiques.
What does caique mean?
noun
- 1
A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
- 2
Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of caique.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce caique?
- /kɑːˈiːk/
- /kaɪˈiːk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of caique
- caïques plural
- caiques plural
- caïc
- caicco
- caieque
- caïque
- kaik
- kaiki
- kajik
- kayik
- saique
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is caique?
Caique appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Caique in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense boat:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | caïque |
| German | Kaik, Kajik |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does caique come from?
Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).