guayabo
[gwaˈʝaβ̞o]
The verdict
“guayabo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #58,561 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,561
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Psidium spp.) Cualquiera de unas cien especies de árboles y arbustos neotropicales de la familia de las mirtáceas, que se cultivan extensamente por su fruto comestible, llamado guayaba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guayabo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gwaˈʝaβ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guayabo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guayabo is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gwaˈʝaβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,561 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for guayabo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is guayabo, spelled G-U-A-Y-A-B-O.
Definition
- 1(Psidium spp.) Cualquiera de unas cien especies de árboles y arbustos neotropicales de la familia de las mirtáceas, que se cultivan extensamente por su fruto comestible, llamado guayaba.
- 2Muchacha hermosa.
- 3Intenso malestar que sucede a una borrachera.
- 4Nostalgia, tristeza o pesadumbre por la pérdida de un deudo o por una ruptura amorosa.
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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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Using “guayabo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-A-Y-A-B-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gwaˈʝaβ̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.