coihue

/[ˈkojwe]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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0

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coihue is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Nothofagus dombeyi) Árbol perennifolio de la familia del roble, nativo de la región centroaustral de Chile y Argentina. Es dioico, frondoso, con el ramaje distintivamente horizontal, y corteza gri... Pronounced [ˈkojwe].

Key facts for coihue
PropertyValue
Headwordcoihue
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkojwe]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

coihue is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for coihue is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkojwe]. 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 coihue 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 coihue, spelled C-O-I-H-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Nothofagus dombeyi) Árbol perennifolio de la familia del roble, nativo de la región centroaustral de Chile y Argentina. Es dioico, frondoso, con el ramaje distintivamente horizontal, y corteza gris. Produce flores poco notorias, de color verde, y fruto en aquenio trilocular alado.
  2. 2
    (Cyttaria harioti) Hongo comestible de Chile, que crece principalmente sobre la corteza del coihue₁.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coihue"?
"coihue" is spelled C-O-I-H-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkojwe].
What does "coihue" mean?
As a noun, "coihue" means: (Nothofagus dombeyi) Árbol perennifolio de la familia del roble, nativo de la región centroaustral de Chile y Argentina. Es dioico, frondoso, con el ramaje distintivamente horizontal, y corteza gri...
How do you pronounce "coihue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coihue" is [ˈkojwe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coihue" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.