ganga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,002
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ganga is aSpanishnoun. It means: (orden Pterocliformes) Cualquiera de una quincena de especies de aves de aspecto generalmente similar a las columbiformes, de cuerpo compacto y alargado, alas largas, plumaje críptico y patas emplu... Pronounced [ˈgãŋga]. Often confused with gano and gaza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgãŋga] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ganga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgãŋga]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,002 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(orden Pterocliformes) Cualquiera de una quincena de especies de aves de aspecto generalmente similar a las columbiformes, de cuerpo compacto y alargado, alas largas, plumaje críptico y patas emplu...".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ganga, with forms such as "agnga", "gagna", and "ganag". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gano", "gaza", "gata", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ganga, spelled G-A-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(orden Pterocliformes) Cualquiera de una quincena de especies de aves de aspecto generalmente similar a las columbiformes, de cuerpo compacto y alargado, alas largas, plumaje críptico y patas emplumadas, que habitan llanuras y zonas desérticas del Viejo Mundo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agnga,gagna,ganag,gangga,gannga,gganga,gnaga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ganga
Misspelling Variants of "ganga"
Frequency rank: #28,002 in Spanish
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