Español homophones

Gana/Ghana

"Gana" (#1,346 written frequency) beats "Ghana" (#16,598) in this 2-word /ˈgana/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈgana/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Gana" leads at #1,346, with "Ghana" trailing at #16,598.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "Gana" is 4 letters, "Ghana" is 5; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Gana, Ghana: agn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • Gana

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory agn · no private letters vs siblings

  • Ghana

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCV

    Inventory aghn · private h

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Gana" when you mean: Apellido.
  • Write "Ghana" when you mean: País de África occidental. Limita al oeste con Costa de Marfil, al norte con Burkina Faso, al este con Togo y al sur con el océano Atlánt…

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • Ganaagna · gaan · ganna · ggana · gnaa
  • Ghanagahna · gghana · ghaan · ghanna · ghhana · ghnaa

Each spelling

Gana

name · /ˈgana/ · #1,346 frequency

Apellido.

Ghana

name · /ˈgana/ · #16,598 frequency

País de África occidental. Limita al oeste con Costa de Marfil, al norte con Burkina Faso, al este con Togo y al sur con el océano Atlántico.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list