GWA
"gwa" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GWA” is uncommon English (frequency #75,021 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,021
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gwa · GWA · English
GWA · rank #75,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,021
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guanajuato
Nearest frequency peer: Guanajuato (-3 rank slots)
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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 “GWA”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GSS
GSS
24,986 corpus weight
- Guanajuato
Guanajuato
24,983 corpus weight
- GWA
GWA
24,980 corpus weight
- Halpert
Halpert
24,976 corpus weight
- handi
handi
24,975 corpus weight
- haplotype
haplotype
24,974 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “GWA” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GWA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “GWA” in English
Rare enough to double-check
GWA is uncommon English at frequency #75,021 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.".
GWA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis The correct English form is GWA, spelled G-W-A.
Definition
- 1Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GWA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted.
Etymology
Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis
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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