gua
[ˈgwa]
The verdict
“gua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,118) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,118
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indica admiración o miedo ante algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gua · gua · Spanish
gua · rank #37,118 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,118
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH grutas
Nearest frequency peer: grutas (-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 “gua”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- gravity
gravity
62,886 corpus weight
- grilla
grilla
62,885 corpus weight
- grutas
grutas
62,884 corpus weight
- gua
gua
62,883 corpus weight
- guacho
guacho
62,882 corpus weight
- guardaban
guardaban
62,881 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gua” 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 | gua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈgwa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gua”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gua is neighbouring look-alikes ("guy", "Gus", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈgwa]. Frequency #37,118 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Indica admiración o miedo ante algo.".
gua has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "gun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is gua, spelled G-U-A.
Definition
- 1Indica admiración o miedo ante algo.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).