guisar
[giˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“guisar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,980 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,980
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someter los alimentos a altas temperaturas como parte de su preparación antes de ser consumidos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guisar · guisar · Spanish
guisar · rank #90,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,980
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guilt
Nearest frequency peer: guilt (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “guisar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- guaraná
guaraná
9,025 corpus weight
- guardavidas
guardavidas
9,024 corpus weight
- guatón
guatón
9,023 corpus weight
- guilt
guilt
9,022 corpus weight
- guisar
guisar
9,021 corpus weight
- hartan
hartan
9,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “guisar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guisar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [giˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “guisar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
guisar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,980 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [giˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for guisar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is guisar, spelled G-U-I-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Someter los alimentos a altas temperaturas como parte de su preparación antes de ser consumidos.
- 2Cocer los alimentos bañados en una salsa (sofrito, refrito, hogao). Generalmente aplica a productos cárnicos revueltos con verduras.
- 3Echar en escabeche o adobo alguna carne para su conservación.
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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