Guam
[ˈgwãm]
The verdict
“Guam” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #52,298 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #52,298
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Isla ubicada en el occidente del océano Pacífico, la más grande y meridional de las Islas Marianas. Pertenece a los Estados Unidos de América como territorio no incorporado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈgwãm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guam” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Guam is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwãm]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,298 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Isla ubicada en el occidente del océano Pacífico, la más grande y meridional de las Islas Marianas. Pertenece a los Estados Unidos de América como territorio no incorporado.".
Guam doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Guam, spelled G-U-A-M.
Definition
- 1Isla ubicada en el occidente del océano Pacífico, la más grande y meridional de las Islas Marianas. Pertenece a los Estados Unidos de América como territorio no incorporado.
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 “Guam”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgwãm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.