Guyana
\ɡɥi.ja.na\
The verdict
“Guyana” is an uncommon French word, ranked #50,871 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #50,871
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays d’Amérique du Sud situé dans le plateau des Guyanes, et dont la capitale est Georgetown.
| 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) |
Where “Guyana” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Guyana is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɥi.ja.na\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,871 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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 “Guyana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-Y-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡɥi.ja.na\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.