garabato

/[gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,277

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

garabato is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de hierro con punta en forma de semicírculo, que sirve para tener colgadas en él cosas o para agarrarlas. Pronounced [gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o].

Key facts for garabato
PropertyValue
Headwordgarabato
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#50,277
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for garabato is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,277 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for garabato in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 garabato, spelled G-A-R-A-B-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento de hierro con punta en forma de semicírculo, que sirve para tener colgadas en él cosas o para agarrarlas.
  2. 2
    Almocafre.
  3. 3
    Soguilla pequeña con una estaca corta en cada extremo, para asir con ella la moña o hacecillo de lino crudo y tenerlo firme a los golpes del mazo con le quitan la gárgola o simiente.
  4. 4
    Arado en que el timón se sustituye por dos piezas de madera unidas a la cama y que permiten que haga el tiro una sola caballería.
  5. 5
    Instrumento que se emplea en el Cantábrico para la pesca del centollo.
  6. 6
    Palo de madera que está en el extremo del gancho.
  7. 7
    Escritura o dibujo realizado rápidamente y sin atención a la calidad, a menudo simultaneando su trazado con otra tarea.
  8. 8
    Letra manuscrita ininteligible.
  9. 9
    Taco o palabra soez.
  10. 10
    Humildad de garabato.
  11. 11
    (Senegalia gilliesii) Arbusto de la familia de las leguminosas, que se caracteriza por sus espinas con forma de gancho. Está en Argentina, Bolivia y Paraguay.
  12. 12
    Perosna jorobada, encorvada.
  13. 13
    Aire, garbo y gentileza que tienen algunas mujeres, y les sirve de atractivo aunque no sean hermosas.
  14. 14
    Bozal para perros.
  15. 15
    Acciones descompasadas con dedos y manos.

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Frequency rank: #50,277 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garabato"?
"garabato" is spelled G-A-R-A-B-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o].
What does "garabato" mean?
As a noun, "garabato" means: Instrumento de hierro con punta en forma de semicírculo, que sirve para tener colgadas en él cosas o para agarrarlas.
How do you pronounce "garabato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garabato" is [gaɾaˈβ̞at̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "garabato" come from?
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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.