guiño
[ˈgiɲo]
The verdict
“guiño” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,852
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Seña que se hace con el ojo, cerrándolo brevemente, para significar, entre otras cosas, una doble intención. Acción de guiñar.
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 | guiño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgiɲo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guiño” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around guiño (IPA [ˈgiɲo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,852 among 17,549 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for guiño, with forms such as "gguiño", "giuño", and "guioñ". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gun", "guns", "guió", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is guiño, spelled G-U-I-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Seña que se hace con el ojo, cerrándolo brevemente, para significar, entre otras cosas, una doble intención. Acción de guiñar.
- 2Por extensión, seña de complicidad.
- 3Resplandor o ráfaga de luz, que alumbra de modo efímero, apagándose o bajando de intensidad casi instantáneamente.
- 4Luz de giro.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguiño
- giuño
- guioñ
- guñio
- ugiño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guiño - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “guiño”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-I-Ñ-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgiɲo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gun” - see the side-by-side comparison. guiño vs gun
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.