gula
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,329
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Exceso en la comida o bebida, y apetito desordenado de comer y beber. Pronounced [ˈgula]. Often confused with guy and Gus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgula] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gula is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgula]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,329 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gula, with forms such as "ggula", "glua", and "gual". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "gun", 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 gula, spelled G-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exceso en la comida o bebida, y apetito desordenado de comer y beber.
- 2Tienda o casa pública donde se vende por menor vino y otras bebidas espiritosas.
- 3Pintura o cuadro donde se representan cosas comestibles.
- 4Esófago.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggula,glua,gual,gulla,ugla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gula
Misspelling Variants of "gula"
Frequency rank: #40,329 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: