guiñada
[giˈɲað̞a]
The verdict
“guiñada” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cerrar un ojo en un gesto de complicidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guinada · guiñada · Spanish
guiñada · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guiñada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [giˈɲað̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “guiñada” en español
Rare enough to double-check
guiñada is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [giˈɲað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guiñada, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 guiñada, spelled G-U-I-Ñ-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Cerrar un ojo en un gesto de complicidad.
- 2Rotación de un aeroplano sobre el eje transversal que lo atraviesa de arriba hacia abajo, es decir, aquel que no pasa ni sobre las alas, ni sobre el cuerpo longitudinal.
- 3Acción y resultado de desviarse el curso del barco por fallas de conducción o por fuerza mayor (oleaje, marejada).
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.