quiaca
[ˈkjaka]
The verdict
“quiaca” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,721 among 3,200 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,721
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,200
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Caldcluvia paniculata) Árbol de la familia de las cunoniáceas que habita en bosques templados de Chile y Argentina. Puede alcanzar hasta 20 m de altura, pero su tronco no supera los 60 cm de diáme...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkjaka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quiaca” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quiaca is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,721 among 3,200 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkjaka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Caldcluvia paniculata) Árbol de la familia de las cunoniáceas que habita en bosques templados de Chile y Argentina. Puede alcanzar hasta 20 m de altura, pero su tronco no supera los 60 cm de diáme...".
Zero misspellings are on record for quiaca in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is quiaca, spelled Q-U-I-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1(Caldcluvia paniculata) Árbol de la familia de las cunoniáceas que habita en bosques templados de Chile y Argentina. Puede alcanzar hasta 20 m de altura, pero su tronco no supera los 60 cm de diámetro. Sus hojas son lanceoladas, con el borde aserrado y sus flores se reúnen en panículas. Tiene uso en apicultura, porque de su néctar se obtiene una miel perfumada de sabor suave. Con sus hojas molidas se calafateaban dalcas y de su tronco se fabrican quillas.
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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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Using “quiaca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Q-U-I-A-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkjaka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.