Guernica
/ɡɚˈni.kə/
"guernica" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guernica” is uncommon English (frequency #75,927 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,927
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Gernika-Lumo, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, known as the site of a bombing which was painted by Pablo Picasso.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guernica · Guernica · English
Guernica · rank #75,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,927
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grom
Nearest frequency peer: grom (-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 “Guernica”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gozo
Gozo
24,079 corpus weight
- Gracchus
Gracchus
24,078 corpus weight
- grom
grom
24,075 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
24,074 corpus weight
- gumby
gumby
24,073 corpus weight
- Habibi
Habibi
24,070 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guernica” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guernica |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɡɚˈni.kə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guernica” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guernica is uncommon English at frequency #75,927 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɡɚˈni.kə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Gernika-Lumo, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, known as the site of a bombing which was painted by Pablo Picasso.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Guernica, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Guernica, from Basque Gernika. The correct English form is Guernica, spelled G-U-E-R-N-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1A town in Gernika-Lumo, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, known as the site of a bombing which was painted by Pablo Picasso.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Guernica, from Basque Gernika.
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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