guayusa
Spanish, noun/ɡwaˈʝusa/
guayusa is spelled G-U-A-Y-U-S-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Spanish, the 236,842nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guayusa is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “guayusa, Ilex guayusa (a tree of the holly genus, brewed as a tea)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does guayusa mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineguayusa, Ilex guayusa (a tree of the holly genus, brewed as a tea)
- 2
femininePiper callosum (a bush of the pepper genus, used medicinally in Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of guayusa
- guayusas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guayusa?
- /ɡwaˈʝusa/
- [ɡwaˈʝu.sa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is guayusa in Spanish?
guayusa appears about once in every 45 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).