buena gente
[ˈbwena ˈxẽn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“buena gente” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona benevolente y de buenas intenciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buena gente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbwena ˈxẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buena gente” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buena gente is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbwena ˈxẽn̪t̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona benevolente y de buenas intenciones.".
No misspelling variants are generated for buena gente in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is buena gente, spelled B-U-E-N-A- -G-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona benevolente y de buenas intenciones.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “buena gente”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-E-N-A- -G-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbwena ˈxẽn̪t̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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