güira de las Antillas
[ˈgwiɾa ð̞e las ãn̪ˈt̪iʝas]
The verdict
“güira de las Antillas” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Crescentia cujete) Árbol de la familia de las bignoniáceas, originario de la zona intertropical de América.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | güira de las Antillas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈgwiɾa ð̞e las ãn̪ˈt̪iʝas] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “güira de las Antillas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for güira de las Antillas is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwiɾa ð̞e las ãn̪ˈt̪iʝas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Crescentia cujete) Árbol de la familia de las bignoniáceas, originario de la zona intertropical de América.".
No misspelling variants are generated for güira de las Antillas 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 güira de las Antillas, spelled G-Ü-I-R-A- -D-E- -L-A-S- -A-N-T-I-L-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Crescentia cujete) Árbol de la familia de las bignoniáceas, originario de la zona intertropical de América.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-Ü-I-R-A- -D-E- -L-A-S- -A-N-T-I-L-L-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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