galego
[ɡɑˈleɣ̞ʊ]
The verdict
“galego” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,399 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,399
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gallego.
Corpus desk
Index ES-galego · galego · Spanish
galego · rank #65,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,399
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gajos
Nearest frequency peer: gajos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “galego”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- futbolera
futbolera
34,606 corpus weight
- gaditanos
gaditanos
34,605 corpus weight
- gajos
gajos
34,603 corpus weight
- galego
galego
34,602 corpus weight
- garcas
garcas
34,599 corpus weight
- gayo
gayo
34,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “galego” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡɑˈleɣ̞ʊ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “galego” en español
Rare enough to double-check
galego is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,399 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡɑˈleɣ̞ʊ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gallego.".
Zero misspellings are on record for galego in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is galego, spelled G-A-L-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Gallego.
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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