gara

/[ˈgaɾa]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#49,033

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

2

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gara is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que pertenece al sexo que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento. Pronounced [ˈgaɾa]. Often confused with gr and gas.

Key facts for gara
PropertyValue
Headwordgara
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgaɾa]
Letters4
Frequency rank#49,033
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gara in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gara is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,033 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que pertenece al sexo que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for gara, including "ggara" and "graa". 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, "gr", "gas", "gay", 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 gara, spelled G-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que pertenece al sexo que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggara,graa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gara

Misspelling Variants of "gara"

ggara5graa4
Misspelling Variants of "gara"

Frequency rank: #49,033 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gara"?
"gara" is spelled G-A-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgaɾa].
What does "gara" mean?
As a noun, "gara" means: Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que pertenece al sexo que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento.
What words are commonly confused with "gara"?
"gara" is commonly confused with "gr", "gas", "gay". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gara"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gara" is [ˈgaɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gara" come from?
"gara" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.