gafa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#63,837
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gafa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento que sirve para armar la ballesta, que tiene una manija, y del remate sale una asa con un gancho, que prende en la cuerda. Junto a la misma manija salen dos medias lunas de acero, prolon... Pronounced [ˈgafa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gafa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgafa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gafa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgafa]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,837 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gafa 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 gafa, spelled G-A-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento que sirve para armar la ballesta, que tiene una manija, y del remate sale una asa con un gancho, que prende en la cuerda. Junto a la misma manija salen dos medias lunas de acero, prolongadas en las puntas, y movibles en su nacimiento, las cuales abrazan la caja de la ballesta. Haciendo fuerza en dos pitones de hierro, que tiene a los lados de dicha caja, se va apretando con la manija hacia la culata, y va cogiendo tanta fuerza que la cuerda que está presa al gancho contrapuesto viene fácilmente a montarse en la nuez, y a dejar armada la ballesta.
- 2Variante poco usada de gafas.
- 3Cada uno de los enganches con que aseguran a las orejas los anteojos.
- 4Objeto metálico en forma de U con sus extremos afilados. Se usa para unir dos piezas contiguas, como tablas o planchas y también papeles.
- 5Objeto en forma de tenaza donde se cuelgan objetos pesados.
Frequency rank: #63,837 in Spanish
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