guaya
Spanish, noun
guaya is spelled G-U-A-Y-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 108,574th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guaya is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “metallic wire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of guayar. With an accent, guayá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of guayar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lloro o lamento por una desgracia o contratiempo”.
What does guaya mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemetallic wire
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of guayar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lloro o lamento por una desgracia o contratiempo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of guaya
- guayas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is guaya in Spanish?
guaya appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).