güiña
[ˈgwiɲa]
The verdict
“güiña” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Oncifelis guigna) Felino sudamericano que vive desde la Patagonia hasta los bosques templados del centro y sur de Chile y Argentina. Pesa entre 2 y 3 kg, mide de 39 a 52 cm, más la cola de 23 cm. ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | güiña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgwiɲa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “güiña” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for güiña is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwiɲa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Oncifelis guigna) Felino sudamericano que vive desde la Patagonia hasta los bosques templados del centro y sur de Chile y Argentina. Pesa entre 2 y 3 kg, mide de 39 a 52 cm, más la cola de 23 cm. ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for güiña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 güiña, spelled G-Ü-I-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Oncifelis guigna) Felino sudamericano que vive desde la Patagonia hasta los bosques templados del centro y sur de Chile y Argentina. Pesa entre 2 y 3 kg, mide de 39 a 52 cm, más la cola de 23 cm. Su pelaje espeso, largo y lanoso es de color café o café-rojizo con manchas oscuras, algunos ejemplares son completamente negros. Sus orejas negras tienen un pequeño dibujo blanco detrás, que simula un ojo en la oscuridad. Es una especie considerada vulnerable, es decir, que aun no está amenazada de extinción. Suele ser confundida con el gato montés o gato de Geoffroy (Oncifelis geoffroyi) en alguna áreas silvestres; del gato colocolo (Oncifelis colocolo) la diferencian su cola larga y menor tamaño.
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Using “güiña”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-Ü-I-Ñ-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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