Guinea
[giˈnea]
The verdict
“Guinea” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #6,541 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #6,541
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guinea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [giˈnea] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guinea” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Guinea is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guinea, with forms such as "gguinea", "giunea", and "guiena". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Guinea, spelled G-U-I-N-E-A.
Definition
- 1País 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.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguinea,giunea,guiena,guinae,guinnea,guniea,uginea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guinea - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Guinea”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-I-N-E-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [giˈnea] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “guiño” - see the side-by-side comparison. Guinea vs guiño
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.