gu
/gu/
The verdict
“gu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,851) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,851
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nosotros, nosotras
Corpus desk
Index ES-gu · gu · Spanish
gu · rank #18,851 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,851
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guiño
Nearest frequency peer: guiño (+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 “gu”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Graciela
Graciela
81,153 corpus weight
- graciosas
graciosas
81,152 corpus weight
- gu
gu
81,150 corpus weight
- guiño
guiño
81,149 corpus weight
- gótica
gótica
81,148 corpus weight
- hablábamos
hablábamos
81,147 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gu” 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 | gu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /gu/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #18,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gu is neighbouring look-alikes ("guy", "Gus", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /gu/. Frequency #18,851 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Nosotros, nosotras".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "gun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is gu, spelled G-U.
Definition
- 1Nosotros, nosotras
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.