guerrilla
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,301
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
guerrilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Línea de tiradores formada de varias parejas o grupos poco numerosos, equidistantes unos de otros, que hostilizan al enemigo, cubriendo el frente o los flancos del cuerpo de batalla. Pronounced [geˈriʝa]. It ranks #9,301 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with guerrillas and guerrillera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerrilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [geˈriʝa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guerrilla is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [geˈriʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,301 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for guerrilla, with forms such as "geurrilla", "gguerrilla", and "guerilla". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "guerrillas", "guerrillera", 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 guerrilla, spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Línea de tiradores formada de varias parejas o grupos poco numerosos, equidistantes unos de otros, que hostilizan al enemigo, cubriendo el frente o los flancos del cuerpo de batalla.
- 2Partida de tropa ligera que hace las descubiertas y rompe las primeras escaramuzas.
- 3Partida de paisanos, por lo común no muy numerosa, que al mando de un jefe particular y con poca o ninguna dependencia de los del ejército, acosa y molesta al enemigo.
- 4Juego de naipes entre dos personas, cada una de las cuales recibe veinte cartas. El as vale cuatro, el rey tres, el caballo dos y la sota una.
- 5Grupo independiente de tamaño relativamente pequeño que lucha contra el gobierno o fuerzas regulares por medio de ataques armados por sorpresa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: geurrilla,gguerrilla,guerilla,guerirlla,guerrila,guerrilal,guerrlila,gurerilla,ugerrilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guerrilla
Misspelling Variants of "guerrilla"
Frequency rank: #9,301 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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