guaiac
noun
guaiac is spelled G-U-A-I-A-C. The wrong spelling people search most is guaic: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Guaiac is a noun meaning “A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces”. The plural of guaiac is guaiacs.
How many letters and syllables are in guaiac?
| Letters | 6: G-U-A-I-A-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, guaic, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell guaiac?
Guaiac is spelled G-U-A-I-A-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for guaiac in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is guaiac?
Guaiac appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Forms of guaiac
- guaiacs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does guaiac mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.
- 2
Guaiacum (tree, wood or resin of the guaiacum tree)
- 3
Guaiacol.
- 4
Oil of guaiac, a fragrance ingredient used in soap and perfumery distilled from the palo santo tree.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).