Guardia Civil
[ˈgwaɾð̞ja siˈβ̞il]
The verdict
“Guardia Civil” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instituto armado español, una de los dos fuerzas de seguridad de ámbito nacional, junto con el Cuerpo Nacional de Policía.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guardia-civil · Guardia Civil · Spanish
Guardia Civil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guardia Civil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈgwaɾð̞ja siˈβ̞il] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Guardia Civil” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Guardia Civil is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈgwaɾð̞ja siˈβ̞il]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instituto armado español, una de los dos fuerzas de seguridad de ámbito nacional, junto con el Cuerpo Nacional de Policía.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Guardia Civil, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Guardia Civil, spelled G-U-A-R-D-I-A- -C-I-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1Instituto armado español, una de los dos fuerzas de seguridad de ámbito nacional, junto con el Cuerpo Nacional de Policía.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.