cipayo

/[siˈpaʝo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,234

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cipayo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Soldado nativo de las Indias Orientales, al servicio de una potencia europea colonial. Pronounced [siˈpaʝo].

Key facts for cipayo
PropertyValue
Headwordcipayo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[siˈpaʝo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#98,234
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cipayo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cipayo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈpaʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,234 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 cipayo 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 cipayo, spelled C-I-P-A-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soldado nativo de las Indias Orientales, al servicio de una potencia europea colonial.
  2. 2
    Partidario de un poder extranjero en desmedro de los intereses de su propio país o grupo.

Frequency rank: #98,234 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cipayo"?
"cipayo" is spelled C-I-P-A-Y-O. The IPA pronunciation is [siˈpaʝo].
What does "cipayo" mean?
As a noun, "cipayo" means: Soldado nativo de las Indias Orientales, al servicio de una potencia europea colonial.
How do you pronounce "cipayo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cipayo" is [siˈpaʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cipayo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.