gallo ciego

/[ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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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].

Key facts for gallo ciego
PropertyValue
Headwordgallo ciego
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gallo ciego 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 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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Cómplice 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gallo ciego"?
"gallo ciego" is spelled G-A-L-L-O- -C-I-E-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o].
What does "gallo ciego" mean?
As a phrase, "gallo ciego" 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.
How do you pronounce "gallo ciego"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gallo ciego" is [ˈgaʝo ˈsjeɣ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gallo ciego" come from?
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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.