gárgola
[ˈgaɾɣ̞ola]
The verdict
“gárgola” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #83,018 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,018
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Figura de animal fabuloso u otras formas grotescas que forma la parte final de un canal, desagüe o aliviadero de aguas de los tejados y las fuentes; son características las usadas en las iglesias y...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gárgola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgaɾɣ̞ola] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gárgola” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gárgola is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaɾɣ̞ola]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,018 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Figura de animal fabuloso u otras formas grotescas que forma la parte final de un canal, desagüe o aliviadero de aguas de los tejados y las fuentes; son características las usadas en las iglesias y...".
gárgola has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is gárgola, spelled G-Á-R-G-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1Figura de animal fabuloso u otras formas grotescas que forma la parte final de un canal, desagüe o aliviadero de aguas de los tejados y las fuentes; son características las usadas en las iglesias y catedrales góticas.
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 “gárgola”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-Á-R-G-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgaɾɣ̞ola] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.