gula
[ˈgula]
The verdict
“gula” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,329
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exceso en la comida o bebida, y apetito desordenado de comer y beber.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gula · gula · Spanish
gula · rank #40,329 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,329
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guisa
Nearest frequency peer: guisa (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “gula”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- granitos
granitos
59,675 corpus weight
- Guadix
Guadix
59,674 corpus weight
- guisa
guisa
59,673 corpus weight
- gula
gula
59,672 corpus weight
- hablador
hablador
59,671 corpus weight
- hacedor
hacedor
59,670 corpus weight
What this shows “gula” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | 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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gula”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gula (IPA [ˈgula]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,329 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gula, with forms such as "ggula", "glua", and "gual". 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, "guy", "Gus", "gun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 gula, spelled G-U-L-A.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«—La Iglesia, dijo el Provincial, nunca ha prohibido los regocijos inocentes; lo que no quiere es la gula, la concupiscencia, la murmuración y otros feos delitos a que son naturalmente ocasionadas las fiestas profanas».
«Los Guaraníes no conocían la mentira, el robo, la gula, la ambición, no tenían clases sociales, no castigaban a sus hijos, ni tenían vicios».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggula
- glua
- gual
- gulla
- ugla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gula - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).