guanaco
[gwaˈnako]
The verdict
“guanaco” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #47,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,839
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-guanaco · guanaco · Spanish
guanaco · rank #47,839 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,839
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Guangzhou
Nearest frequency peer: Guangzhou (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “guanaco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- granado
granado
52,167 corpus weight
- graneros
graneros
52,166 corpus weight
- gros
gros
52,164 corpus weight
- guanaco
guanaco
52,162 corpus weight
- Guangzhou
Guangzhou
52,161 corpus weight
- gustabas
gustabas
52,160 corpus weight
What this shows “guanaco” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | 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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “guanaco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around guanaco (IPA [gwaˈnako]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,839 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for guanaco, with forms such as "gaunaco", "gguanaco", and "guaanco". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Guárico", "ganado", "granado", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is guanaco, spelled G-U-A-N-A-C-O.
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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guanaco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rompiendo el statu quo que se había generado entre los estudiantes secundarios y carabineros, el personal policial decidió intervenir, y el guanaco entró en acción para disparar fuertes chorros de agua contra los escolares que estaban apostados en el frontis de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gaunaco
- gguanaco
- guaanco
- guanacco
- guanaoc
- guancao
- guannaco
- gunaaco
- uganaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guanaco - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).