garbanzo

/[gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,289

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

garbanzo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (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... Pronounced [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso].

Key facts for garbanzo
PropertyValue
Headwordgarbanzo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]
Letters8
Frequency rank#52,289
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for garbanzo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,289 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.

No misspelling variants are generated for garbanzo 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 garbanzo, spelled G-A-R-B-A-N-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 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.
  2. 2
    Semilla del garbanzo₁, apreciada en gastronomía.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #52,289 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garbanzo"?
"garbanzo" is spelled G-A-R-B-A-N-Z-O. The IPA pronunciation is [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso].
What does "garbanzo" mean?
As a noun, "garbanzo" means: (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...
How do you pronounce "garbanzo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garbanzo" is [gaɾˈβ̞ãnso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "garbanzo" come from?
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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.