peyote
[peˈʝot̪e]
The verdict
“peyote” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #55,810 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,810
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Lophophora williamsii) Cactus pequeño perteneciente a la familia Cactaceae. Es endémica de México y la parte sudoccidental de Texas. Muy conocida por sus alcaloides psicoactivos, entre ellos la me...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peyote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈʝot̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peyote” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for peyote is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈʝot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,810 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Lophophora williamsii) Cactus pequeño perteneciente a la familia Cactaceae. Es endémica de México y la parte sudoccidental de Texas. Muy conocida por sus alcaloides psicoactivos, entre ellos la me...".
No misspelling variants are generated for peyote 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 peyote, spelled P-E-Y-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Lophophora williamsii) Cactus pequeño perteneciente a la familia Cactaceae. Es endémica de México y la parte sudoccidental de Texas. Muy conocida por sus alcaloides psicoactivos, entre ellos la mescalina, principal sustancia responsable de sus efectos psicodélicos. Posee una larga tradición de uso tanto medicinal como ritual entre los indígenas americanos y está extendido mundialmente como enteógeno y complemento de diversas prácticas entre las que se encuentran la meditación y la psicoterapia psicodélica.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-Y-O-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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