guía
[ˈgia]
The verdict
“guía” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,345 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,345
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cualquier cosa, material o inmaterial, que sirve para orientarse (indicar la dirección, el camino, la manera corrrecta, etc.).
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgia] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guía is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgia]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,345 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for guía, with forms such as "gguía", "guaí", and "gíua". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "gun", 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 guía, spelled G-U-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquier cosa, material o inmaterial, que sirve para orientarse (indicar la dirección, el camino, la manera corrrecta, etc.).
- 2Libro, revista o impreso que da indicaciones para orientarse en una materia.
- 3Libro, documento, revista o impreso que ordena los datos propios a una materia o tema.
- 4Palo vertical que se coloca junto al tronco de una planta para orientar su crecimiento vertical.
- 5Poste que se pone cada cierto trecho en caminos nevados para orientar al viajero.
- 6Pieza mecánica que mantiene la orientación de otra, obligándola a que siga un camino o dirección determinados.
- 7Documento que prueba el origen de cierta mercancía o carga para efectos de transporte legal y aduanas.
- 8Mecha delgada de pólvora para hacer estallar una carga explosiva o fuegos artificiales en el orden deseado.
- 9Cada una de las dos puntas retorcidas de los bigotes.
- 10En los carruajes tirados por caballerías, él o los animales que van fuera del tronco y por delante.
- 11Riendas para guiar a las caballerías guías.
- 12Tallo principal de los árboles, en especial de las coníferas.
- 13Palanca a la que se ata el animal de tiro (caballo, mula, etc.) de una noria.
- 14Animal de tiro que va adelante, indicando el camino de las demás en ciertos vehículos tirados por caballos, mulas, perros, etc.
- 15Varilla que tiene un abanico a cada lado para servirle de marco.
- 16Tipo de trampa, fullería o argucia en los juegos de cartas o naipes.
- 17Filón pequeño (veta o masa para rellenar un grieta) que se emplea para buscar hasta dónde se extiende o prolonga un criadero (material inorgánico y útil de un terreno).
- 18Nudo, cabo, aparejo o mecanismo que mantiene un objeto donde debe estar colocado.
- 19Voz que precede a la demás en una fuga o canon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguía,guaí,gíua,ugía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guía - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "guía"
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 “guía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “guy” - see the side-by-side comparison. guía vs guy
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Nearby Spanish words
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