Guiana
"guiana" [gi'ɐnɐ], "guyana" [guj'ɐnɐ] e "güiana" [gwi'ɐnɐ], sendo as duas primeiras as formas mais usadas em Portugal e Brasil respectivamente e a última considerada incorreta, visto que a palavra não era grafada com trema antes do último acordo ortográfico.
The verdict
“Guiana” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,779
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - país da América do Sul, que faz fronteira com o Brasil, o Suriname e a Venezuela
Corpus desk
Index PT-guiana · Guiana · Portuguese
Guiana · rank #8,779 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH Haiti
Nearest frequency peer: Haiti (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “Guiana”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- foca
foca
91,229 corpus weight
- golfe
golfe
91,225 corpus weight
- Guiana
Guiana
91,222 corpus weight
- Haiti
Haiti
91,221 corpus weight
- imunidade
imunidade
91,220 corpus weight
- joelhos
joelhos
91,218 corpus weight
What this shows “Guiana” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guiana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | "guiana" [gi'ɐnɐ], "guyana" [guj'ɐnɐ] e "güiana" [gwi'ɐnɐ], sendo as duas primeiras as formas mais usadas em Portugal e Brasil respectivamente e a última considerada incorreta, visto que a palavra não era grafada com trema antes do último acordo ortográfico. |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Guiana”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Guiana (IPA "guiana" [gi'ɐnɐ], "guyana" [guj'ɐnɐ] e "güiana" [gwi'ɐnɐ], sendo as duas primeiras as formas mais usadas em Portugal e Brasil respectivamente e a última considerada incorreta, visto que a palavra não era grafada com trema antes do último acordo ortográfico.), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,779 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "país da América do Sul, que faz fronteira com o Brasil, o Suriname e a Venezuela".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guiana, with forms such as "gguiana", "giuana", and "guaina". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Guiné", "guiar", "Guinea", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is Guiana, spelled G-U-I-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1país da América do Sul, que faz fronteira com o Brasil, o Suriname e a Venezuela
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguiana
- giuana
- guaina
- guiaan
- guianna
- guinaa
- ugiana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guiana - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).