piragua
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,827
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
piragua is aSpanishnoun. It means: Embarcación hecha de madera u otros elementos vegetales, estrecha y de poco calado, normalmente de una sola pieza, que se propulsa a remo o vela. Es propia de los indígenas americanos y de los nati... Pronounced [piˈɾaɣ̞wa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piragua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɾaɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for piragua is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈɾaɣ̞wa]. Corpus data places it at rank #74,827 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for piragua 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 piragua, spelled P-I-R-A-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Embarcación hecha de madera u otros elementos vegetales, estrecha y de poco calado, normalmente de una sola pieza, que se propulsa a remo o vela. Es propia de los indígenas americanos y de los nativos de Oceanía.
- 2Embarcación de una sola pieza, alargada, de poco calado e impulsada solo por remos, de uso deportivo.
- 3Refresco de fruta con hielo finamente picado o granizado.
- 4(Anthurium scandens Engl) Planta epífita de la familia de las Aráceas.
- 5(Monstera pertusa)Planta parásita de la familia de las Aráceas que ataca las plantaciones de cacao.
Frequency rank: #74,827 in Spanish
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