caracucha
[kaɾaˈkut͡ʃa]
The verdict
“caracucha” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Plumeria alba) Árbol apocináceo americano. Es una especie de flor ornamental, frecuente en los parques y jardines de las zonas altas de la región de Piura (Perú). Llega a alcanzar los cuatro metro...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caracucha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾaˈkut͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caracucha” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caracucha is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾaˈkut͡ʃa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for caracucha 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 caracucha, spelled C-A-R-A-C-U-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Plumeria alba) Árbol apocináceo americano. Es una especie de flor ornamental, frecuente en los parques y jardines de las zonas altas de la región de Piura (Perú). Llega a alcanzar los cuatro metros de altura y sus flores, de hermosos colores amarillos y rosados, poseen una agradable fragancia, sobre todo en las primeras horas de la mañana.
- 2(Cyttaria berteroi) Hongo comestible de forma esférica, color blanco en la superficie y naranja en el interior, que crece sobre la corteza del roble (Nothofagus obliqua) en el centro y sur de Chile.
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Using “caracucha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-R-A-C-U-C-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaɾaˈkut͡ʃa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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