gun
/ɡʌn/
The verdict
“gun” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,174) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,174
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arma de fuego.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gun · gun · Spanish
gun · rank #24,174 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,174
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guiados
Nearest frequency peer: guiados (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “gun”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- guatemalteca
guatemalteca
75,829 corpus weight
- guiados
guiados
75,828 corpus weight
- gun
gun
75,827 corpus weight
- hablaría
hablaría
75,826 corpus weight
- haitiano
haitiano
75,825 corpus weight
- hand
hand
75,824 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gun” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | gun |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡʌn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gun”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gun is neighbouring look-alikes ("guy", "Gus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɡʌn/. Frequency #24,174 among 1,728 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
gun has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "gurú", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is gun, spelled G-U-N.
Definition
- 1Arma de fuego.
- 2Pistola.
- 3Cañón.
- 4Asesino profesional.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).