Guiné

//gi.'nɛ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,073

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

Guiné is aPortuguesenoun. It means: país da África, faz fronteira com a Guiné-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Costa do Marfim, Libéria e Serra Leoa Pronounced /gi.'nɛ/. It ranks #4,073 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with gun and Guinea.

Key facts for Guiné
PropertyValue
HeadwordGuiné
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/gi.'nɛ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,073
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Guiné in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Guiné is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /gi.'nɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,073 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "país da África, faz fronteira com a Guiné-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Costa do Marfim, Libéria e Serra Leoa".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Guiné, with forms such as "gguiné", "giuné", and "guinné". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "gun", "Guinea", "gin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is Guiné, spelled G-U-I-N-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    país da África, faz fronteira com a Guiné-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Costa do Marfim, Libéria e Serra Leoa

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gguiné,giuné,guinné,guién,gunié,uginé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Guiné

Misspelling Variants of "Guiné"

gguiné6giuné5guinné6guién5gunié5uginé5
Misspelling Variants of "Guiné"

Frequency rank: #4,073 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Guiné"?
"Guiné" is spelled G-U-I-N-É. The IPA pronunciation is /gi.'nɛ/.
What does "Guiné" mean?
As a noun, "Guiné" means: país da África, faz fronteira com a Guiné-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Costa do Marfim, Libéria e Serra Leoa
What words are commonly confused with "Guiné"?
"Guiné" is commonly confused with "gun", "Guinea", "gin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Guiné"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Guiné" is /gi.'nɛ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Guiné" come from?
"Guiné" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.