gema
[ˈxema]
The verdict
“gema” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,426) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,426
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquier piedra preciosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gema · gema · Spanish
gema · rank #23,426 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,426
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gemas
Nearest frequency peer: gemas (+1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “gema”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- fértiles
fértiles
76,579 corpus weight
- garante
garante
76,578 corpus weight
- garantizando
garantizando
76,577 corpus weight
- gema
gema
76,575 corpus weight
- gemas
gemas
76,574 corpus weight
- girasol
girasol
76,572 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gema” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxema] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gema”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gema is neighbouring look-alikes ("gen", "get", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxema]. Frequency #23,426 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Cualquier piedra preciosa.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gema, with forms such as "egma", "geam", and "ggema". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gen", "get", "Goa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is gema, spelled G-E-M-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquier piedra preciosa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egma
- geam
- ggema
- gmea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gema - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gema", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).