galopín
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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galopín is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquier muchacho mal vestido, sucio y desharrapado, por abandono. Pronounced [galoˈpĩn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | galopín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [galoˈpĩn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for galopín is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [galoˈpĩn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for galopín 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 galopín, spelled G-A-L-O-P-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquier muchacho mal vestido, sucio y desharrapado, por abandono.
- 2Pícaro, bribón, sin crianza ni vergüenza.
- 3Corrupción de garlopín, cepillo más pequeño que la garlopa.
- 4Glotón, egoísta, gran amigo de las comodidades.
- 5Hombre taimado de talento y de mundo.
- 6Todo el que se dedica a oficios bajos.
- 7Ración de vino que se daba a los clérigos para su desayuno.
- 8Paje de escoba.
- 9Antigua medida de capacidad usada en París y que valía medio sextario.
- 10Nombre que se daba en otro tiempo en Francia a los cirujanos subayudantes de los regimientos.
- 11Galopín de cocina, galopillo.
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