gusano
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,108
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
gusano is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquier animal invertebrado y ápodo, de forma tubular o aplanada pero siempre alargada, sea ésta su forma adulta —como en los anélidos, nematodos y platelmintos— o una fase previa —como en las la... Pronounced [guˈsano]. Often confused with gusto and gustan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gusano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [guˈsano] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gusano is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [guˈsano]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,108 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gusano, with forms such as "ggusano", "gsuano", and "guasno". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "gusto", "gustan", "Guyana", 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 gusano, spelled G-U-S-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquier animal invertebrado y ápodo, de forma tubular o aplanada pero siempre alargada, sea ésta su forma adulta —como en los anélidos, nematodos y platelmintos— o una fase previa —como en las larvas de muchos insectos—.
- 2(Lumbricidae) Lombriz de tierra.
- 3Persona despreciable o rastrera.
- 4Programa diseñado para replicarse copiando ilegalmente su código a otros nodos en una red de computadoras, provocando daños simplemente por la saturación de tráfico con independencia de otras acciones que pueda realizar.
- 5Persona que tiene una postura u opinión política contraria a los intereses de la Revolución Cubana y que se ha expresado mediante obras o palabras en contra de ésta, de sus instituciones o dirigentes. Con frecuencia se emplea el término para referirse a quienes por diversas causas han abandonado definitivamente el país.^([cita requerida])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggusano,gsuano,guasno,gusanno,gusaon,gusnao,gussano,ugsano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gusano
Misspelling Variants of "gusano"
Frequency rank: #15,108 in Spanish
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