cuy
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,229
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cuy is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈkuj].
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuy is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuj]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,229 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cuy 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 cuy, spelled C-U-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #56,229 in Spanish
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