Guyana
\ɡɥi.ja.na\
The verdict
“Guyana” is uncommon French (frequency #50,871 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,871
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Amérique du Sud situé dans le plateau des Guyanes, et dont la capitale est Georgetown.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guyana · Guyana · French
Guyana · rank #50,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,871
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guildes
Nearest frequency peer: guildes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Guyana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grinçant
grinçant
49,133 corpus weight
- guadeloupéen
guadeloupéen
49,132 corpus weight
- guildes
guildes
49,131 corpus weight
- Guyana
Guyana
49,130 corpus weight
- gérable
gérable
49,129 corpus weight
- Göteborg
Göteborg
49,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Guyana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guyana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡɥi.ja.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Guyana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Guyana is uncommon French at frequency #50,871 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡɥi.ja.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays d’Amérique du Sud situé dans le plateau des Guyanes, et dont la capitale est Georgetown.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Guyana, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Guyana, spelled G-U-Y-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Amérique du Sud situé dans le plateau des Guyanes, et dont la capitale est Georgetown.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guyana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Suriname, ex-Guyane hollandaise devenue indépendante en 1975 […] a une superficie de 163 265 km² et comprend les deux territoires disputés aux frontières sud-ouest et sud-est du Guyana (ex-Guyane britannique devenue indépendante en 1966) et de la Guyane (département d’outremer) respectivement.
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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