caiquén
The verdict
“caiquén” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Chloephaga picta (Gmelin). Ave que mide unos 66 cm; el macho tiene la cabeza, el cuello y la espalda blancos; todo el resto del cuerpo con líneas blancas y negras. La hembra tiene cierta semejanza ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caiquén |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kajˈkẽn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caiquén” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caiquén is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kajˈkẽn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Chloephaga picta (Gmelin). Ave que mide unos 66 cm; el macho tiene la cabeza, el cuello y la espalda blancos; todo el resto del cuerpo con líneas blancas y negras. La hembra tiene cierta semejanza ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for caiquén in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is caiquén, spelled C-A-I-Q-U-É-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chloephaga picta (Gmelin). Ave que mide unos 66 cm; el macho tiene la cabeza, el cuello y la espalda blancos; todo el resto del cuerpo con líneas blancas y negras. La hembra tiene cierta semejanza con un canquén colorado. Vive en llanuras secas desde el sur de Santiago de Chile hasta la Patagonia y las Islas Malvinas.
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Using “caiquén”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-I-Q-U-É-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kajˈkẽn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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