galleta
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,739
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
galleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pasta compuesta de harina, azúcar y a veces huevo, manteca o confituras diversas, que, dividida en trozos pequeños y moldeados o modelados en forma varia, se cuecen al horno. Pronounced [gaˈʝet̪a]. Often confused with goleta and Gazeta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈʝet̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for galleta is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈʝet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,739 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for galleta, with forms such as "aglleta", "galelta", and "galeta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "goleta", "Gazeta", "gallina", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 galleta, spelled G-A-L-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pasta compuesta de harina, azúcar y a veces huevo, manteca o confituras diversas, que, dividida en trozos pequeños y moldeados o modelados en forma varia, se cuecen al horno.
- 2Bollo de pan con costra.
- 3Pan sin levadura, especialmente preparado para su larga conservación que se embarcaba para consumo de los marinos en largos viajes.
- 4Pan bazo que se amasa para los trabajadores rurales.
- 5Carbón mineral lavado y clasificado, cuyos trozos deben tener un tamaño reglamentario de entre 25 y 45 mm.
- 6Ladrillo delgado y plano.
- 7Nudo o enredo que se produce en un hilo, cable o línea de pesca.
- 8Bola en la que rematan los palos y las astas de banderas.
- 9Herraje al tope del mástil para distanciar el estay de popa de la baluma.
- 10Adorno con que, hacia 1840, se sustituyó el pompón en el chacó y morrión militares. Consistía en un disco que llevaba en la parte anterior el número del regimiento.
- 11Escudo de las gorras de los marinos.
- 12Cachetada, bofetada.
- 13Embotellamiento.
- 14Compresa.
- 15Embrollo, lío.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aglleta,galelta,galeta,galleat,galletta,galltea,ggalleta,glaleta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for galleta
Misspelling Variants of "galleta"
Frequency rank: #19,739 in Spanish
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