guijarro
[giˈxaro]
The verdict
“guijarro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,288 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,288
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piedra redondeada de pequeño tamaño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guijarro · guijarro · Spanish
guijarro · rank #50,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,288
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gástrica
Nearest frequency peer: gástrica (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “guijarro”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Grimaldi
Grimaldi
49,715 corpus weight
- guijarro
guijarro
49,713 corpus weight
- gástrica
gástrica
49,712 corpus weight
- habilitan
habilitan
49,710 corpus weight
- hebra
hebra
49,709 corpus weight
- Heidelberg
Heidelberg
49,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “guijarro” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guijarro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [giˈxaro] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “guijarro” en español
Rare enough to double-check
guijarro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,288 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [giˈxaro]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Piedra redondeada de pequeño tamaño.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for guijarro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 guijarro, spelled G-U-I-J-A-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Piedra redondeada de pequeño tamaño.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guijarro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recojo extrañas caracolas, cristales que al traer a nuestro elemento se convierten en guijarros negruzcos e informes.
This word in other languages
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).