Guadalajara
[ɡu̯adalaˈxaʁa]
The verdict
“Guadalajara” is an uncommon German word, ranked #87,788 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #87,788
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt in der spanischen Autonomen Gemeinschaft Kastilien-La Mancha
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guadalajara |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɡu̯adalaˈxaʁa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guadalajara” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Guadalajara is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡu̯adalaˈxaʁa]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,788 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Guadalajara, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Guadalajara, spelled G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Stadt in der spanischen Autonomen Gemeinschaft Kastilien-La Mancha
- 2Provinz in der spanischen Autonomen Gemeinschaft Kastilien-La Mancha
- 3Hauptstadt des mexikanischen Bundesstaates Jalisco
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Guadalajara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡu̯adalaˈxaʁa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.