garfio
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,947
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
garfio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de hierro, curvo y puntiagudo, que sirve para aferrar algún objeto. Pronounced [ˈgaɾfjo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garfio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgaɾfjo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garfio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaɾfjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,947 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for garfio 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 garfio, spelled G-A-R-F-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de hierro, curvo y puntiagudo, que sirve para aferrar algún objeto.
- 2Raíz fijadora o asidora, como las admenticias del tallo de la hiedra.
- 3En Cirugía: Instrumento quirúrgico formado por un vástago comúnmente de acero, cuya punta roma o aguda, está más o menos encorvada hacia el cuerpo del instrumento.
- 4Instrumento dedicado a la pesca de la almeja en el Cantábrico. Se compone de un mango de madera, con tres ganchos de hierro y una fina red metálica en la parte baja en la que se depositan las almejas extraídas. Se emplea corrientemente desde tierra, pero también se usa desde embarcaciones pequeñas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #50,947 in Spanish
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