chigüire
[t͡ʃiˈɣ̞wiɾe]
The verdict
“chigüire” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #99,338 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #99,338
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chigüire |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈɣ̞wiɾe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chigüire” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chigüire is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃiˈɣ̞wiɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #99,338 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chigüire 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 chigüire, spelled C-H-I-G-Ü-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempre cerca del agua en humedales del este de Panamá y en Sudamérica, al norte y oriente de los Andes, hasta el centro de la Argentina. Posee un cuerpo pesado en forma de barril y una cabeza pequeña, con un pelaje pardo rojizo en la parte superior del cuerpo que se vuelve pardo amarillo en la parte inferior. Pueden crecer hasta 130 cm de largo y llegar a pesar 85 kg.
- 2Falto de inteligencia o entendimiento
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chigüire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-H-I-G-Ü-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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