cuy
[ˈkuj]
The verdict
“cuy” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,229 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,229
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuy · cuy · Spanish
cuy · rank #56,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,229
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Curran
Nearest frequency peer: Curran (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cuy”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cultivaba
cultivaba
43,777 corpus weight
- curaduría
curaduría
43,775 corpus weight
- currado
currado
43,774 corpus weight
- Curran
Curran
43,773 corpus weight
- cuy
cuy
43,772 corpus weight
- darkness
darkness
43,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cuy” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuy” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuy is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,229 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkuj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cuy in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cuy, spelled C-U-Y.
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 años. Los incas domesticaron y criaron estos roedores para aprovechar su carne y su piel. En la actualidad se le cría para usarlo en experimentos científicos y cada vez más, para tenerlos como mascotas.
- 2Buscapiés, cohete.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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