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gata

noun

gata is spelled G-A-T-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gata means “A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gata is gatas.

How many letters and syllables are in gata?

Letters4: G-A-T-A
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is gata?

Gata appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of gata

  • gatas plural
  • kata
  • katah
  • gatah

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does gata mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

  2. 2

    slangA police officer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does gata come from?

Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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