cuajo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,674
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fermento que existe en el estómago de los mamíferos y que sirve para coagular la caseína de la leche. Pronounced [ˈkwaxo]. Often confused with cuál and cuyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkwaxo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuajo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkwaxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,674 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuajo, with forms such as "caujo", "ccuajo", and "cuajjo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuál", "cuyo", "culo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cuajo, spelled C-U-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fermento que existe en el estómago de los mamíferos y que sirve para coagular la caseína de la leche.
- 2Efecto de cuajar la leche.
- 3Producto para cuajar un líquido.
- 4Cuarto estómago de los rumiantes, el encargado de hacer la digestión enzimática de los alimentos.
- 5Lentitud y pereza en la forma de actuar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caujo,ccuajo,cuajjo,cuaoj,cujao,ucajo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuajo
Misspelling Variants of "cuajo"
Frequency rank: #44,674 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: