gabán
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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gabán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Capote con mangas, y a veces con capilla, que regularmente se hace de paño fuerte. Pronounced [gaˈβ̞ãn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gabán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gabán is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈβ̞ãn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gabán in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Spanish form is gabán, spelled G-A-B-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capote con mangas, y a veces con capilla, que regularmente se hace de paño fuerte.
- 2(Ciconia maguari) Cigüeña nativa de América del Sur, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 130 cm de largo. Muestra poco dimorfismo sexual, siendo de color blanco, con la cabeza, el cuello y el pecho con reflejos grises, y los extremos del ala y la cola negras. Es gregaria, formando bandadas no muy numerosas. Habita regiones de lagunas o marjales en zonas tropicales y subtropicales de América.
- 3Prenda de lana tejida en telar de pedal que consiste en un lienzo rectangular con abertura central longitudinal para introducir la cabeza. Es utilizado mayormente en las zonas de clima templado a frío del centro de la República Mexicana.
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