guiri
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#77,316
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
guiri is aSpanishnoun. It means: Partidario del bando liberal en las Guerras Carlistas. Pronounced [ˈgiɾi].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guiri |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgiɾi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guiri is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgiɾi]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,316 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for guiri in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 guiri, spelled G-U-I-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partidario del bando liberal en las Guerras Carlistas.
- 2Natural de un país extranjero y no hispanohablante.
- 3Agente de la Guardia Civil.
- 4(Ulex europaeus) Arbusto espinoso de la familia de las fabáceas, nativo de Europa, de hasta 3 m de altura, con hojas trifoliadas que en los ejemplares adultos se convierten en espinas de hasta 3 cm de largo. Florece en primavera, produciendo inflorescencias arracimadas en las brácteas axilares, que fructificarán en vainas pequeñas, pardorrojizas. Es muy invasor, y rebrota con facilidad tras ser quemado.
Frequency rank: #77,316 in Spanish
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