galla
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5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgaʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Suerte 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.
- 2Órgano de la respiración, que tienen los peces en aberturas naturales, a entrambos lados y en el arranque de la cabeza.
- 3Remolino 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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