galápago

/[gaˈlapaɣ̞o]/ noun

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8 characters

Language

Spanish

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galápago is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de varias especies de tortugas acuáticas, no emparentadas filogenéticamente entre sí y caracterizadas por la presencia de membrana interdigital. Pronounced [gaˈlapaɣ̞o].

Key facts for galápago
PropertyValue
Headwordgalápago
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gaˈlapaɣ̞o]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

galápago is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for galápago is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈlapaɣ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for galápago 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 galápago, spelled G-A-L-Á-P-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cualquiera de varias especies de tortugas acuáticas, no emparentadas filogenéticamente entre sí y caracterizadas por la presencia de membrana interdigital.
  2. 2
    (Geochelone nigra) Tortuga terrestre, endémica del archipiélago homónimo. Es el mayor de los quelonios, alcanzando los 2 m de longitud y los 225 kg de peso. Es hervíbora, normalmente sedentaria y muy longeva.
  3. 3
    Cimbra pequeña para formar las bovedillas de un techo.
  4. 4
    Refuerzo que se aplica en los sótanos construidos en terreno húmedo para evitar el desplazamiento del material.
  5. 5
    Refuerzo de mampostería que se aplica a los ángulos de un tejado saledizo.
  6. 6
    Formación de batalla que usaban las legiones romanas, cubriéndose por entero con los escudos.
  7. 7
    Máquina de asedio formada por una defensa móvil, bajo la cual se protegía la tropa para acercarse a la posición enemiga.
  8. 8
    Montura simple y de borrén muy convexo.
  9. 9
    Montura de amazona.
  10. 10
    Prensa usada para sujetar firmemente una pieza en la que se trabaja, o para unir dos entre sí mientras se seca el adhesivo.
  11. 11
    Polea que se fija a una viga o pared.
  12. 12
    Vara principal de los arados de reja.
  13. 13
    Molde para tejas.
  14. 14
    Lingote de metal común.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "galápago"?
"galápago" is spelled G-A-L-Á-P-A-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [gaˈlapaɣ̞o].
What does "galápago" mean?
As a noun, "galápago" means: Cualquiera de varias especies de tortugas acuáticas, no emparentadas filogenéticamente entre sí y caracterizadas por la presencia de membrana interdigital.
How do you pronounce "galápago"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "galápago" is [gaˈlapaɣ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "galápago" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.