guerra

Name: guerra, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ˈgera]

/[ˈgera]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“guerra” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#256
frequency rank, Spanish: 1,728
“G” headwords: 6
tracked misspellings: 9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conflicto armado entre mucha gente (países, bandos) y con gran número de víctimas (muertos, heridos, damnificados).

Corpus desk

Index ES-guerra · guerra · Spanish

guerra · rank #256 · 6 variants · 9 confusables

FREQ-CORE #256
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
VAR-MID 6 variants
BOOK-MID 1,728
PHOTO-FINISH equipo

Nearest frequency peer: equipo (-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.

agua

99,748
alguna

99,747
equipo

99,746
guerra

99,745
saber

99,744
vamos

99,742

What this shows “guerra” 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).

guerra vs guiará

50% similar

guerra vs guerras

86% similar

guerra vs Guevara

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for guerra
Property	Value
Headword	guerra
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[ˈgera]
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#256
Misspellings tracked	6
Confusable pairs	9
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “guerra”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).guerracae aquí:

#256

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “equipo” (#255), “saber” (#257), “alguna” (#254). Entre 1,728 lemas con “G”, “guerra” va en #256. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around guerra (IPA [ˈgera]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #256 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for guerra, with forms such as "geurra", "gguerra", and "guera". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "guiará", "guerras", "Guevara", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 guerra, spelled G-U-E-R-R-A.

Definition

1
Conflicto armado entre mucha gente (países, bandos) y con gran número de víctimas (muertos, heridos, damnificados).
2
Cualquier lucha en la que no se respeta al enemigo ni sigue unas normas comunes.
3
Toda especie de lucha y combate, aunque sea en sentido moral.
4
Pugna, disidencia entre dos o más personas.
5
Cierto juego de billar.
6
Oposición de una cosa con otra.

Synonyms

conflicto

Antonyms

paz

This word in other languages

war(English)guerre(Français)Krieg(Deutsch)guerra(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

geurra
gguerra
guera
guerar
gurera
ugerra

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guerra - 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.

Edit distance from "guerra"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guerra"?

"guerra" is spelled G-U-E-R-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgera].

What does "guerra" mean?

As a noun, "guerra" means: Conflicto armado entre mucha gente (países, bandos) y con gran número de víctimas (muertos, heridos, damnificados).

What words are commonly confused with "guerra"?

"guerra" is commonly confused with "guiará", "guerras", "Guevara". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "guerra"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guerra" is [ˈgera]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "guerra" come from?

"guerra" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guerra", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

equipo#255 alguna#254 pueblo#244 mañana#269

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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