gayuba
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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gayuba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mata de la familia de las Ericáceas, tendida, siempre verde y ramosa, con hojas amontonadas, lustrosas, elípticas, pecioladas y enteras, flores en racimos terminales, de corola blanca o sonrosada, ... Pronounced [gaˈʝuβ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gayuba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈʝuβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gayuba is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈʝuβ̞a]. 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 gayuba 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 gayuba, spelled G-A-Y-U-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mata de la familia de las Ericáceas, tendida, siempre verde y ramosa, con hojas amontonadas, lustrosas, elípticas, pecioladas y enteras, flores en racimos terminales, de corola blanca o sonrosada, y fruto en drupa roja y esférica de seis a ocho milímetros de diámetro. El cocimiento de las hojas y frutos se suele emplear como diurético
- 2El fruto de esa planta₁
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