Gus
[ˈgus]
The verdict
“Gus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,385) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,385
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hipocorístico de Gustavo, Augusto o Agustín.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gus · Gus · Spanish
Gus · rank #22,385 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,385
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gritaban
Nearest frequency peer: gritaban (-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 “Gus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- gobernada
gobernada
77,619 corpus weight
- grabaron
grabaron
77,618 corpus weight
- gritaban
gritaban
77,617 corpus weight
- Gus
Gus
77,616 corpus weight
- hechizos
hechizos
77,615 corpus weight
- humillado
humillado
77,613 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Gus” 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 | Gus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈgus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Gus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gus is neighbouring look-alikes ("guy", "guys", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈgus]. Frequency #22,385 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Hipocorístico de Gustavo, Augusto o Agustín.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "guys", "gusta", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Gus, spelled G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Hipocorístico de Gustavo, Augusto o Agustín.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).