galea
[gaˈlea]
The verdict
“galea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,618 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,618
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Buque de cien pies de quilla, poco más o menos, bajo y raso , muy lanzado de proa, con un gran espolón en ella y aletas a popa; tres palos con velas latinas, y en su castillo de proa dos o tres cañ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈlea] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “galea” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
galea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,618 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gaˈlea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Buque de cien pies de quilla, poco más o menos, bajo y raso , muy lanzado de proa, con un gran espolón en ella y aletas a popa; tres palos con velas latinas, y en su castillo de proa dos o tres cañ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for galea in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is galea, spelled G-A-L-E-A.
Definition
- 1Buque de cien pies de quilla, poco más o menos, bajo y raso , muy lanzado de proa, con un gran espolón en ella y aletas a popa; tres palos con velas latinas, y en su castillo de proa dos o tres cañones de grueso calibre. Su mayor andar era al remo, para lo cual, y según su" porte, llevaba distribuidos por cada banda hasta treinta o más de ellos, cada uno de los cuales era bogado por dos o tres forzados. Según las relaciones históricas , los antiguos las tenían de dos, tres, cuatro y cinco órdenes de remos.
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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 “galea”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-L-E-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.