cobaya
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,820
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cobaya is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mamífero roedor sudamericano, estrictamente herbívoro. Pesa alrededor de un kilo, vive en áreas abiertas y utiliza hoyos y madrigueras para ocultarse y protegerse; tienen una longevidad de cuatro a... Pronounced [koˈβ̞aʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobaya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈβ̞aʝa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cobaya is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈβ̞aʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,820 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 cobaya 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 cobaya, spelled C-O-B-A-Y-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mamífero roedor sudamericano, estrictamente herbívoro. Pesa alrededor de un kilo, vive en áreas abiertas y utiliza hoyos y madrigueras para ocultarse y protegerse; tienen una longevidad de cuatro a seis o también de diez años. Los incas domesticaron y criaron estos roedores para aprovechar su carne y su piel. En la actualidad se les cría para usarlos en experimentos científicos y cada vez más, para tenerlos como mascotas.
- 2Persona utilizada para probar tratamientos, productos químicos o farmacéuticos y observar el resultado o efecto de tales experimentaciones.
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Frequency rank: #92,820 in Spanish
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