gadget
/ɡædʒɪt/
The verdict
“gadget” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #48,427 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #48,427
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositivo, aparato, artilugio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gadget |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡædʒɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gadget” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gadget is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡædʒɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,427 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dispositivo, aparato, artilugio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gadget, with forms such as "agdget", "gaddget", and "gadegt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is gadget, spelled G-A-D-G-E-T.
Definition
- 1Dispositivo, aparato, artilugio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agdget,gaddget,gadegt,gadgett,gadgget,gadgte,gagdet,gdaget,ggadget
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gadget - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “gadget”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-D-G-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɡædʒɪt/ (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.