Guinea

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The Spanish entry for Guinea is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [giˈnea]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,541 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País de África occidental. Limita al norte con Guinea-Bisáu y Senegal, al este con Malí y Costa de Marfil, al sureste con Liberia, al sur con Sierra Leona y al oeste con el océano Atlántico.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Guinea, with forms such as "gguinea", "giunea", and "guiena". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "guiño", "guita", "guisa", 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 Guinea, spelled G-U-I-N-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.