guiar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,056
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
guiar is aSpanishverb. It means: Ir junto o delante de una persona para indicarle la ruta a seguir. Pronounced [ˈgjaɾ]. Often confused with guíe and guió.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈgjaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guiar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,056 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for guiar, with forms such as "gguiar", "giuar", and "guair". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guíe", "guió", "gula", 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 guiar, spelled G-U-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ir junto o delante de una persona para indicarle la ruta a seguir.
- 2Manejar un aparato o una pieza mecánica de modo que siga la ruta adecuada.
- 3Acompañar y orientar a una persona en sus decisiones.
- 4Controlar un vehículo para que siga una ruta.
- 5Poner guía₄ a las plantas, para orientar su crecimiento.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguiar,giuar,guair,guiarr,guira,ugiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guiar
Misspelling Variants of "guiar"
Frequency rank: #13,056 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: