gab
/gæb/
The verdict
“gab” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #77,285 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,285
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conversación, charlar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gab |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /gæb/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gab” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gab is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /gæb/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,285 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conversación, charlar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gab in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is gab, spelled G-A-B.
Definition
- 1Conversación, charlar.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gab”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /gæb/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.