cañizo
Spanish, noun/kaˈɲiθo/
cañizo is spelled C-A-Ñ-I-Z-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish, the 139,655th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cañizo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “wattle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tejido de cañas y bramante o tomiza, que sirve para camas en la cría de gusanos de seda, armazón en los…”.
What does cañizo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewattle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tejido de cañas y bramante o tomiza, que sirve para camas en la cría de gusanos de seda, armazón en los toldos de los carros, sostén del yeso en los cielos rasos, etc.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cañizo
- cañizos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cañizo?
- /kaˈɲiθo/
- [kaˈɲi.θo]
- /kaˈɲiso/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cañizo in Spanish?
cañizo appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).