guacamayo
[gwakaˈmaʝo]
The verdict
“guacamayo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,090 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,090
- 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 | guacamayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gwakaˈmaʝo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guacamayo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
guacamayo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,090 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gwakaˈmaʝo]. 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...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for guacamayo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is guacamayo, spelled G-U-A-C-A-M-A-Y-O.
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-O - 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.