GPS
[ˈgps]
The verdict
“GPS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,130) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,130
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Global Positioning System o Sistema de Posicionamiento Global
Corpus desk
Index ES-gps · GPS · Spanish
GPS · rank #9,130 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,130
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Gordon
Nearest frequency peer: Gordon (-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 “GPS”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- game
game
90,874 corpus weight
- gestos
gestos
90,873 corpus weight
- Gordon
Gordon
90,872 corpus weight
- GPS
GPS
90,871 corpus weight
- gramos
gramos
90,869 corpus weight
- hablaban
hablaban
90,868 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “GPS” 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 | GPS |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈgps] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “GPS”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GPS is neighbouring look-alikes ("gr", "gu", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈgps]. Frequency #9,130 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Global Positioning System o Sistema de Posicionamiento Global".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for GPS, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gr", "gu", "guy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 GPS, spelled G-P-S.
Definition
- 1Global Positioning System o Sistema de Posicionamiento Global
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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