Guadalajara
[gwað̞alaˈxaɾa]
The verdict
“Guadalajara” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,251 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #4,251
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ciudad de España, ubicada en la provincia homónima
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guadalajara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [gwað̞alaˈxaɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guadalajara” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Guadalajara is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gwað̞alaˈxaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,251 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guadalajara, with forms such as "gaudalajara", "gguadalajara", and "guaadlajara". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Guadalajara, spelled G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de España, ubicada en la provincia homónima
- 2Provincia del centro de España
- 3Ciudad, capital del estado de Jalisco, México
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gaudalajara,gguadalajara,guaadlajara,guadaaljara,guadalaajra,guadalajaar,guadalajarra,guadalajjara,guadalajraa,guadaljaara,guadallajara,guaddalajara,guadlaajara,gudaalajara,ugadalajara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guadalajara - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Guadalajara"
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 “Guadalajara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gwað̞alaˈxaɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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