xocoyote

Spanish

Alternative forms

• socoyote

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl xōcōyotl (“youngest child”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʃokoˈʝote/ [ʃo.koˈʝo.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): /ʃokoˈʝote/ [ʃo.koˈʝo.t̪e] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ʃokoˈʃote/ [ʃo.koˈʃo.t̪e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʃokoˈʒote/ [ʃo.koˈʒo.t̪e] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: xo‧co‧yo‧te

Noun

xocoyote m (plural xocoyotes)

1. (Mexico) the youngest child of a family

   Synonym: benjamín

Further reading

• “xocoyote”, 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