galla

/[ˈgaʝa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

galla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Suerte de fruto, excrecencia redonda, que dan algunos árboles como el alcornoque y el roble, al ser picados por algunos insectos. Se usa para teñir la lana. Pronounced [ˈgaʝa].

Key facts for galla
PropertyValue
Headwordgalla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgaʝa]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

galla 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 galla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaʝa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Suerte de fruto, excrecencia redonda, que dan algunos árboles como el alcornoque y el roble, al ser picados por algunos insectos. Se usa para teñir la lana.
  2. 2
    Órgano de la respiración, que tienen los peces en aberturas naturales, a entrambos lados y en el arranque de la cabeza.
  3. 3
    Remolino de pelo en el caballo, que se forma en los costados del pecho, detrás del codo y junto a la cinchera.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "galla"?
"galla" is spelled G-A-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgaʝa].
What does "galla" mean?
As a noun, "galla" means: Suerte de fruto, excrecencia redonda, que dan algunos árboles como el alcornoque y el roble, al ser picados por algunos insectos. Se usa para teñir la lana.
How do you pronounce "galla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "galla" is [ˈgaʝa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "galla" come from?
"galla" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.