gurú
[guˈɾu]
The verdict
“gurú” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,062
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jefe religioso o maestro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guru · gurú · Spanish
gurú · rank #20,062 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,062
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guarden
Nearest frequency peer: guarden (-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 “gurú”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- granjeros
granjeros
79,942 corpus weight
- griegas
griegas
79,941 corpus weight
- guarden
guarden
79,940 corpus weight
- gurú
gurú
79,939 corpus weight
- hablante
hablante
79,938 corpus weight
- hablaré
hablaré
79,937 corpus weight
What this shows “gurú” 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 | gurú |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [guˈɾu] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gurú”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gurú (IPA [guˈɾu]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,062 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gurú, with forms such as "ggurú", "gruú", and "gurrú". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "Gus", "guys", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is gurú, spelled G-U-R-Ú.
Definition
- 1Jefe religioso o maestro.
- 2Guía espiritual, maestro o experto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggurú
- gruú
- gurrú
- guúr
- ugrú
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gurú - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gurú", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).