cóccix
The verdict
“cóccix” 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
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hueso corto, impar, central y simétrico que en los primates se compone de las últimas cuatro o cinco vértebras, soldadas entre sí y formando un triángulo cuya base se articula con el sacro, rematan...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cóccix |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoksiks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cóccix” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cóccix is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkoksiks]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hueso corto, impar, central y simétrico que en los primates se compone de las últimas cuatro o cinco vértebras, soldadas entre sí y formando un triángulo cuya base se articula con el sacro, rematan...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cóccix 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 cóccix, spelled C-Ó-C-C-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hueso corto, impar, central y simétrico que en los primates se compone de las últimas cuatro o cinco vértebras, soldadas entre sí y formando un triángulo cuya base se articula con el sacro, rematando la columna vertebral por su extremo basal.
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Using “cóccix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-Ó-C-C-I-X — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkoksiks] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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