alcayota

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl [Term?].

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /alkaˈʝota/ [al.kaˈʝo.t̪a]

• IPA^(key): /alkaˈʝota/ [al.kaˈʝo.t̪a] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /alkaˈʃota/ [al.kaˈʃo.t̪a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /alkaˈʒota/ [al.kaˈʒo.t̪a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: al‧ca‧yo‧ta

Noun

alcayota f (plural alcayotas)

1. spaghetti squash

Further reading

• “alcayota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025