Guam
[ˈgwãm]
The verdict
“Guam” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,298 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,298
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guam · Guam · Spanish
Guam · rank #52,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,298
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guadaña
Nearest frequency peer: guadaña (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Guam”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Germania
Germania
47,708 corpus weight
- gets
gets
47,707 corpus weight
- guadaña
guadaña
47,704 corpus weight
- Guam
Guam
47,703 corpus weight
- guri
guri
47,700 corpus weight
- habitaron
habitaron
47,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Guam” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “Guam” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Guam is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,298 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈgwãm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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