gañán
Spanish, noun
gañán is spelled G-A-Ñ-Á-N (5 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,864th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gañán is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Stupid and bad-mannered rural man from the Spanish countryside; yokel, hick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its tilde, ganan is a different word: “third-person plural present indicative of ganar”. With a tilde, gañan is a different word: “third-person plural present subjunctive”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Peón empleado en tareas de labranza”.
What does gañán mean in English?
noun
- 1
SpainderogatorymasculineStupid and bad-mannered rural man from the Spanish countryside; yokel, hick
- 2
masculinefarmhand
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative of ganar
verb
- 1
third-person plural present subjunctive
- 2
third-person plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peón empleado en tareas de labranza. 2. Varón rudo y fuerte. 3. Varón falto de inteligencia o entendimiento. 4. Varón rústico o poco educado.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gañán
- gañanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gañán
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gañán in Spanish?
gañán appears 16 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).