Guatemala
/gwa.te.'ma.lə/
The verdict
“Guatemala” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,646. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,646
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,241
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - país da América Central, faz fronteira com o México, Belize, Honduras e El Salvador; sua capital é a Cidade da Guatemala
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guatemala |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /gwa.te.'ma.lə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Guatemala” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Guatemala (IPA /gwa.te.'ma.lə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,646 among 1,241 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "país da América Central, faz fronteira com o México, Belize, Honduras e El Salvador; sua capital é a Cidade da Guatemala".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guatemala, with forms such as "gautemala", "gguatemala", and "guaetmala". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Guatemala, spelled G-U-A-T-E-M-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1país da América Central, faz fronteira com o México, Belize, Honduras e El Salvador; sua capital é a Cidade da Guatemala
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gautemala
- gguatemala
- guaetmala
- guateamla
- guatemaal
- guatemalla
- guatemlaa
- guatemmala
- guatmeala
- guattemala
- gutaemala
- ugatemala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guatemala - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Guatemala”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-U-A-T-E-M-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /gwa.te.'ma.lə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.