gandul
[gãn̪ˈd̪ul]
The verdict
“gandul” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #82,987 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #82,987
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona a la que no le gusta trabajar y procura evitar hacerlo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gandul |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [gãn̪ˈd̪ul] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gandul” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gandul is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gãn̪ˈd̪ul]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,987 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona a la que no le gusta trabajar y procura evitar hacerlo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gandul, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is gandul, spelled G-A-N-D-U-L.
Definition
- 1Persona a la que no le gusta trabajar y procura evitar hacerlo.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gandul”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-N-D-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gãn̪ˈd̪ul] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.