guayacán
Spanish, noun/ɡwaʝaˈkan/
guayacán is spelled G-U-A-Y-A-C-Á-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 79,842nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guayacán is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “any tree of the genus Guaiacum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(género Guaiacum) Árbol de la familia de las cigofiláceas, que crece hasta unos doce metros de altura, de…”.
What does guayacán mean in English?
noun
- 1
Mexicomasculineany tree of the genus Guaiacum
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (género Guaiacum) Árbol de la familia de las cigofiláceas, que crece hasta unos doce metros de altura, de tronco ramoso y torcido, hojas pareadas y elípticas, flores con pétalos de color blanco azulado y fruto capsular, carnoso. Es natural de América tropical. 2. Madera de este árbol, de color cetrino negruzco y extremadamente dura.
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 guayacán
- guayacanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guayacán?
- /ɡwaʝaˈkan/
- [ɡwa.ʝaˈkãn]
- [gwaʝaˈkãn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is guayacán in Spanish?
guayacán appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).