George
/dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/
The verdict
“George” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,503 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #2,503
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Jorge.
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 | George |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “George” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for George is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,503 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Jorge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for George, with forms such as "egorge", "geogre", and "georeg". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Georgia", "Georges", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is George, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Jorge.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egorge,geogre,georeg,georgge,georrge,geroge,ggeorge,goerge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of George - 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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Using “George”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-E-O-R-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Georgia” - see the side-by-side comparison. George vs Georgia
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.