guárdate
[ˈgwaɾð̞at̪e]
The verdict
“guárdate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,016 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,016
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de guardarse (con el pronombre enclítico).
Corpus desk
Index ES-guardate · guárdate · Spanish
guárdate · rank #83,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,016
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,549
- PHOTO-FINISH guipuzcoano
Nearest frequency peer: guipuzcoano (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “guárdate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- guerrerense
guerrerense
16,988 corpus weight
- guindas
guindas
16,987 corpus weight
- guipuzcoano
guipuzcoano
16,986 corpus weight
- guárdate
guárdate
16,985 corpus weight
- Gárate
Gárate
16,984 corpus weight
- gárgola
gárgola
16,983 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “guárdate” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guárdate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈgwaɾð̞at̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guárdate” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
guárdate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,016 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈgwaɾð̞at̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de guardarse (con el pronombre enclítico).".
Zero misspellings are on record for guárdate in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is guárdate, spelled G-U-Á-R-D-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de guardarse (con el pronombre enclítico).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.