Which Spanish words have "gu" in them?

Question

Which Spanish words have "gu" in them?

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Answer 1

Tricheli

Here are some

gusto guitar gustar guapo guardar guerra

Go to the Dictionary tab above and type in "gu*" (without the brackets)

Answer 2

Try using our dictionary - type in "gu" and you'll see some words shown below.

Answer 3

Hola, what do you mean with that "gu" ? Come on, there are tons of words in each language containig ths sound, don't you think? Well, if you ask me, my favourite one among these I know (and as I am only the beginner I know very few palabras en español, most of which are not to be mentioned here ....noot) is guagua. Normally, if you were Polish and heard this word, you 'd think that it must have some African origings Gule, gule! (this means bye but in Turkish)

Answer 4

Does this question arise due to the fact that in some words the u is silent and in others it is pronounced? Or that the u affects the sound of the g?

G followed by e or i sounds similar to the English h (soft). G followed by any other letter sounds similar to the English g as in "go" (hard). To force the g to take the hard sound before e or i, Spanish inserts u (which is silent in this situation). To force the u in the above rule to be pronounced, Spanish adds an umlaut (diéresis) which is a pair of dots above the u, as ü.

I'm sure others in the forum will let us know if there are any exceptions, but I'm not aware of any.

There are many words in Spanish that contain gu.

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