guaca
[ˈgwaka]
The verdict
“guaca” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sepulcro inca en el que se han enterrado tesoros funerarios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgwaka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guaca” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guaca is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwaka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for guaca 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 guaca, spelled G-U-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sepulcro inca en el que se han enterrado tesoros funerarios.
- 2Por extensión, sepulcro antiguo cualquiera.
- 3Recipiente de alfarería en que se encuentran guardados los tesoros funerarios en una guaca₁.
- 4Tesoro escondido y olvidado.
- 5Hueco en la tierra en el que se deposita la fruta recogida verde para su maduración.
- 6Recipiente de metal, cerámica, barro u otros materiales, utilizado para el ahorro de dinero, que cuenta con una ranura en la parte superior para introducir las monedas.
- 7Dinero ahorrado en una guaca₆.
- 8Lugar apto para esconder algo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “guaca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-A-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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