gallo ciego
Letters
11 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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gallo ciego is aSpanishphrase. It means: Juego infantil en que a uno de los participantes se vendan los ojos, debiendo intentar atrapar a alguno de los restantes —y, en algunas versiones, identificarlo— sin utilizar la vista. Pronounced [ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gallo ciego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for gallo ciego is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gallo ciego 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 gallo ciego, spelled G-A-L-L-O- -C-I-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego infantil en que a uno de los participantes se vendan los ojos, debiendo intentar atrapar a alguno de los restantes —y, en algunas versiones, identificarlo— sin utilizar la vista.
- 2Cómplice involuntario de un estafador, al que se lo embauca para que realice para éste una actividad de riesgo, como cobrar un cheque robado.
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