guacamaya
[gwakaˈmaʝa]
The verdict
“guacamaya” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,973 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,973
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Ara) Género de aves de la familia de los loros (Psittacidae), del orden de las Psittaciformes, que comprende 14 especies (seis de ellas extintas) de origen americano, habitando desde las selvas de...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guacamaya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gwakaˈmaʝa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guacamaya” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
guacamaya is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,973 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gwakaˈmaʝa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Ara) Género de aves de la familia de los loros (Psittacidae), del orden de las Psittaciformes, que comprende 14 especies (seis de ellas extintas) de origen americano, habitando desde las selvas de...".
guacamaya doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is guacamaya, spelled G-U-A-C-A-M-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1(Ara) Género de aves de la familia de los loros (Psittacidae), del orden de las Psittaciformes, que comprende 14 especies (seis de ellas extintas) de origen americano, habitando desde las selvas de México hasta el noreste de Argentina, aproximadamente. Se alimentan de insectos y bayas y viven en los árboles.
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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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-A-C-A-M-A-Y-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.