guarana
/ɡwəˈɹɑːnə/
"guarana" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guarana” is uncommon English (frequency #97,082 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,082
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tree, Paullinia cupana, native to Venezuela and northern Brazil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guarana · guarana · English
guarana · rank #97,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,082
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH groundsman
Nearest frequency peer: groundsman (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “guarana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- greenie
greenie
2,923 corpus weight
- gridded
gridded
2,922 corpus weight
- groundsman
groundsman
2,920 corpus weight
- guarana
guarana
2,919 corpus weight
- gulfs
gulfs
2,918 corpus weight
- gunsmoke
gunsmoke
2,917 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guarana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guarana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡwəˈɹɑːnə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guarana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guarana is uncommon English at frequency #97,082 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡwəˈɹɑːnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guarana, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Brazilian Portuguese guaraná, from Sateré-Mawé warana. The correct English form is guarana, spelled G-U-A-R-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1A tree, Paullinia cupana, native to Venezuela and northern Brazil.
- 2The fruit from this tree, chiefly used to make caffeinated beverages.
- 3An edible paste prepared from the seeds of the tree, formed into round or oblong cakes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guarana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brazilians consume more than six billion quarts of soft drinks a year, making Brazil the third-largest soft drink market in the world, after Mexico and the United States, and guarana-based drinks make up 25 percent of this market.
Etymology
From Brazilian Portuguese guaraná, from Sateré-Mawé warana.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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