coquito

/[koˈkit̪o]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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coquito is aSpanishnoun. It means: Diminutivo de coco₁ (nuez de la Cocos nucifera). Pronounced [koˈkit̪o].

Key facts for coquito
PropertyValue
Headwordcoquito
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[koˈkit̪o]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

coquito 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 coquito is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈkit̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coquito 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 coquito, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Diminutivo de coco₁ (nuez de la Cocos nucifera).
  2. 2
    Fruto o nuez de la palma chilena (Jubaea spectabilis), de color amarillo cuando está maduro, que puede alcanzar unos 5 cm de diámetro.
  3. 3
    (Cyperus rotundus) Planta herbácea perenne que alcanza unos 50 cm de altura, de tallo triangular, hojas finas, y pequeñas flores rojizas.
  4. 4
    Licor puertorriqueño hecho básicamente de crema de coco, ron blanco, leche evaporada, leche condensada, canela y vainilla. Puede tener hasta 55% de contenido alcohólico. Se consume mayormente en la época navideña.
  5. 5
    Dulce pequeño preparado con coco₁ rallado, en diversas presentaciones según el país y la región.
  6. 6
    Tipo de tela blanca con flores, empleada para la confección de polleras.
  7. 7
    Coscorrón, golpe en la cabeza con los nudillos.^([cita requerida])

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coquito"?
"coquito" is spelled C-O-Q-U-I-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [koˈkit̪o].
What does "coquito" mean?
As a noun, "coquito" means: Diminutivo de coco₁ (nuez de la Cocos nucifera).
How do you pronounce "coquito"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coquito" is [koˈkit̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coquito" come from?
"coquito" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.