ganzúa
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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similar word pairs
ganzúa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Alambre fuerte y doblado por una punta, a modo de garfio, con que, a falta de llave, pueden correrse los pestillos de la cerradura. Pronounced [gãnˈsua].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ganzúa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gãnˈsua] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ganzúa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gãnˈsua]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ganzúa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 ganzúa, spelled G-A-N-Z-Ú-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Alambre fuerte y doblado por una punta, a modo de garfio, con que, a falta de llave, pueden correrse los pestillos de la cerradura.
- 2Ladrón que roba lo que está muy cerrado o escondido.
- 3Persona que tiene arte o maña para sonsacar a otra su secreto.
- 4El que ejecuta la pena de muerte.
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