cayuco
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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cayuco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Embarcación de una pieza a partir de un tronco de árbol vaciado, más pequeña que la canoa, con el fondo plano y sin quilla, que se impulsa y se dirige con un remo muy ancho llamado canalete y que s... Pronounced [kaˈʝuko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cayuco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʝuko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for cayuco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈʝuko]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cayuco in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cayuco, spelled C-A-Y-U-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Embarcación de una pieza a partir de un tronco de árbol vaciado, más pequeña que la canoa, con el fondo plano y sin quilla, que se impulsa y se dirige con un remo muy ancho llamado canalete y que se utiliza en las Antillas y otras partes de América.
- 2Recientemente, barco o bote usado por los inmigrantes ilegales africanos para entrar en España.
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