Guadalajara
The verdict
“Guadalajara” is an uncommon French word, ranked #51,505 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #51,505
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guadalajara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guadalajara” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Guadalajara is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #51,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Guadalajara in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Guadalajara, spelled G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
- 2Province d’Espagne située dans la communauté autonome de Castille-La Manche.
- 3Ville du Mexique, capitale de l’État de Jalisco.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Guadalajara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-A-D-A-L-A-J-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.