ganso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,685
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ganso is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Anser spp., Branta spp., Chen spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de aves anseriformes estrechamente emparentadas con los patos y los cisnes, de mediano a gran tamaño y hábitos migratorios. Han si... Pronounced [ˈgãnso]. Often confused with gas and gato.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgãnso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ganso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgãnso]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,685 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ganso, with forms such as "agnso", "gannso", and "ganos". 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, "gas", "gato", "gays", 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 ganso, spelled G-A-N-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Anser spp., Branta spp., Chen spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de aves anseriformes estrechamente emparentadas con los patos y los cisnes, de mediano a gran tamaño y hábitos migratorios. Han sido domesticadas desde la Antigüedad para aprovechar su carne, vísceras y huevos, así como por su talante agresivo, que los hace aptos como animales de guardia.
- 2Sirviente antiguamente encargado de la crianza y educación en el hogar de los niños.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agnso,gannso,ganos,gansso,gasno,gganso,gnaso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ganso"
Frequency rank: #21,685 in Spanish
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