guajiro
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#59,299
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
guajiro is anSpanishadj. It means: Originario, relativo a, o propio de un pueblo amerindio de estirpe arawak, que habita tradicionalmente en la península de La Guajira, al norte de Suramérica. Su nombre original es wayúu. Pronounced [gwaˈxiɾo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guajiro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [gwaˈxiɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guajiro is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gwaˈxiɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for guajiro 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 guajiro, spelled G-U-A-J-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Originario, relativo a, o propio de un pueblo amerindio de estirpe arawak, que habita tradicionalmente en la península de La Guajira, al norte de Suramérica. Su nombre original es wayúu.
- 2Que trabaja en una zona rural, o vive en ella.
- 3Originario, relativo a, o propio de La Guajira, Colombia.
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Frequency rank: #59,299 in Spanish
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