ouija
[ˈgwixa]
The verdict
“ouija” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,447 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,447
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía alternativa de güija.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ouija · ouija · Spanish
ouija · rank #50,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,447
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH osteoporosis
Nearest frequency peer: osteoporosis (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ouija”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- originando
originando
49,557 corpus weight
- Osetia
Osetia
49,556 corpus weight
- osteoporosis
osteoporosis
49,555 corpus weight
- ouija
ouija
49,554 corpus weight
- ovulación
ovulación
49,553 corpus weight
- padezco
padezco
49,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ouija” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouija |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgwixa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ouija” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ouija is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,447 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈgwixa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grafía alternativa de güija.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ouija in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 ouija, spelled O-U-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1Grafía alternativa de güija.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ouija appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Por ese tiempo Aurora tenía un novio que le había enseñado a manejar la ouija, y según ella, la había consultado acerca de nuestros fracasos acapulqueños, poniéndose en contacto con la tía Julia, una vieja antepasada nuestra que había vivido en el puerto, y que ella, o más bien su espíritu, le dijo que la familia Guerra tenía jetatura, así nada más dice q…
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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