gallo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,560
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gallo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Gallus gallus) Macho de la gallina, de distintivo dimorfismo sexual que incluye una cresta roja en la cabeza y espolones en las patas. Suele emitir un sonido (canto) característico generalmente al... Pronounced [ˈgaʝo]. It ranks #7,560 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gato and gano.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gallo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgaʝo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gallo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,560 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for gallo, with forms such as "agllo", "galol", and "ggallo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gato", "gano", "galo", 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 gallo, spelled G-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Gallus gallus) Macho de la gallina, de distintivo dimorfismo sexual que incluye una cresta roja en la cabeza y espolones en las patas. Suele emitir un sonido (canto) característico generalmente al amanecer y al atardecer.
- 2(Lepidorhombus boscii) Pez pleuronectiforme de unos 20 centímetros de largo, parecido al lenguado.
- 3Tono agudo de la voz que se emite involuntariamente al cantar o hablar.
- 4(Gladiolus spp.) cualquiera de unas 260 especies de plantas iridáceas, herbáceas, perennes, que producen llamativas espigas de flores de color blanco a púrpura, y largas hojas lanceoladas a lineales.
- 5Persona cualquiera.
- 6Reemplazante de otro trabajador en la industria del salitre.
- 7Recipiente para orinar sin salir de la cama que usan los enfermos en los hospitales.
- 8Ropa vieja.
- 9Parte carnosa eréctil en la vulva de la mujer.
- 10Pifia o falla poco aparente de un objeto.
- 11(Zeus faber) Pez comestible de aguas profundas con un cuerpo comprimido lateralmente de color oliva-amarillo que tiene una gran mancha oscura ribeteada de color amarillo en su costado y grandes espinas en la aleta dorsal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agllo,galol,ggallo,glalo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gallo
Misspelling Variants of "gallo"
Frequency rank: #7,560 in Spanish
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