guardia

/[ˈgwaɾð̞ja]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,900

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

guardia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo de gente armada que asegura o defiende alguna persona o puesto. Pronounced [ˈgwaɾð̞ja]. It ranks #1,900 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with guardo and guarra.

Key facts for guardia
PropertyValue
Headwordguardia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgwaɾð̞ja]
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,900
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of guardia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for guardia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwaɾð̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,900 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cuerpo de gente armada que asegura o defiende alguna persona o puesto.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for guardia, with forms such as "gaurdia", "gguardia", and "guadria". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "guardo", "guarra", "guarida", and more, 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 guardia, spelled G-U-A-R-D-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuerpo de gente armada que asegura o defiende alguna persona o puesto.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gaurdia,gguardia,guadria,guardai,guarddia,guarrdia,guradia,ugardia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guardia

Misspelling Variants of "guardia"

gaurdia7gguardia8guadria7guardai7guarddia8guarrdia8guradia7ugardia7
Misspelling Variants of "guardia"

Frequency rank: #1,900 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guardia"?
"guardia" is spelled G-U-A-R-D-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgwaɾð̞ja].
What does "guardia" mean?
As a noun, "guardia" means: Cuerpo de gente armada que asegura o defiende alguna persona o puesto.
What words are commonly confused with "guardia"?
"guardia" is commonly confused with "guardo", "guarra", "guarida". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guardia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guardia" is [ˈgwaɾð̞ja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guardia" come from?
"guardia" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.