gafas
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,782
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gafas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lentes (instrumento o accesorio usado para corregir la visión). Pronounced [ˈgafas]. It ranks #6,782 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gas and Gana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gafas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgafas] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gafas is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgafas]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,782 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gafas, with forms such as "agfas", "gaafs", and "gafass". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gas", "Gana", "gama", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 gafas, spelled G-A-F-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lentes (instrumento o accesorio usado para corregir la visión).
- 2Gafas que tienen otro uso distinto que el de corregir defectos en la visión.
- 3En particular, gafas que se usan para proteger los ojos a la hora de soldar.
- 4Gafas de sol.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agfas,gaafs,gafass,gaffas,gafsa,gfaas,ggafas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gafas
Misspelling Variants of "gafas"
Frequency rank: #6,782 in Spanish
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