garbanzo
[gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]
The verdict
“garbanzo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,289 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,289
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Cicer arietinum) Planta leguminosa de la familia de las fabáceas, con hábito herbáceo, de hasta 50 cm de altura, tallo redondeado, hojas imparipinnadas de folíolos dentados. Produce flores solitar...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garbanzo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garbanzo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
garbanzo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,289 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for garbanzo in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is garbanzo, spelled G-A-R-B-A-N-Z-O.
Definition
- 1(Cicer arietinum) Planta leguminosa de la familia de las fabáceas, con hábito herbáceo, de hasta 50 cm de altura, tallo redondeado, hojas imparipinnadas de folíolos dentados. Produce flores solitarias, blancas, que fructifican en una vaina con un par de semillas. Se cultiva por estas, usadas como alimento.
- 2Semilla del garbanzo₁, apreciada en gastronomía.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “garbanzo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-R-B-A-N-Z-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.