Gemma
[ˈxema]
The verdict
“Gemma” sits in 14 confusable pairs (corpus #26,459) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,459
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gemma · Gemma · Spanish
Gemma · rank #26,459 · 4 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,459
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Galván
Nearest frequency peer: Galván (-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 “Gemma”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- galones
galones
73,544 corpus weight
- Galván
Galván
73,543 corpus weight
- Gemma
Gemma
73,542 corpus weight
- glóbulos
glóbulos
73,541 corpus weight
- Gordillo
Gordillo
73,540 corpus weight
- granaderos
granaderos
73,539 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Gemma” 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 | Gemma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈxema] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Gemma”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gemma is neighbouring look-alikes ("goma", "gesta", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈxema]. Frequency #26,459 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gemma, with forms such as "egmma", "gemam", and "ggemma". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "goma", "gesta", "grama", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Gemma, spelled G-E-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egmma
- gemam
- ggemma
- gmema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gemma - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).