guanaco
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,839
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
guanaco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Lama guanicoe) Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los camélidos, nativo de la región andina, de hasta 160 cm de altura y 100 kg de peso, de denso pelaje en dos capas, pardo rojizo en el lomo y... Pronounced [gwaˈnako]. Often confused with Guárico and ganado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guanaco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gwaˈnako] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guanaco is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gwaˈnako]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,839 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for guanaco, with forms such as "gaunaco", "gguanaco", and "guaanco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Guárico", "ganado", "granado", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 guanaco, spelled G-U-A-N-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Lama guanicoe) Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los camélidos, nativo de la región andina, de hasta 160 cm de altura y 100 kg de peso, de denso pelaje en dos capas, pardo rojizo en el lomo y blanco en el vientre. Se aprovecha tradicionalmente para la esquila, aunque rara vez se domestica hoy; la llama desciende de los guanacos domesticados en época precolombina.
- 2Tambor de metal que está partido en sentido vertical y unidas las mitades con bisagras, de modo que puede cerrarse. Esta estructura se suelda sobre un soporte y se perfora por uno de sus extremos para añadirle un tubo curvo que le da cierta semejanza a un guanaco₁. Se utiliza para cocinar asados.
- 3Vehículo policial equipado para lanzar un chorro de agua a gran presión y dispersar manifestaciones.
- 4Cigüeña (bomba para extraer petróleo).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gaunaco,gguanaco,guaanco,guanacco,guanaoc,guancao,guannaco,gunaaco,uganaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guanaco
Misspelling Variants of "guanaco"
Frequency rank: #47,839 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "guanaco"?
What does "guanaco" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "guanaco"?
How do you pronounce "guanaco"?
What language does "guanaco" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: