garita
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,245
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
garita is aSpanishnoun. It means: Puesto de vigilancia usado en algunas fortificaciones. En muchos casos puede ser una torre pequeña con ventanillas largas y estrechas. Pronounced [gaˈɾit̪a]. Often confused with gata and grito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈɾit̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garita is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈɾit̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,245 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for garita, with forms such as "agrita", "gairta", and "gariat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gata", "grito", "grita", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 garita, spelled G-A-R-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Puesto de vigilancia usado en algunas fortificaciones. En muchos casos puede ser una torre pequeña con ventanillas largas y estrechas.
- 2Cuarto pequeño que los porteros de las casas suelen tener en los portales, a fin de poder ver quien entra y sale.
- 3Lugar común, que sólo tiene un asiento y si tiene varios, cada división separada con el suyo.
- 4Casa, habitación, cuarto o estancia de cortas dimensiones.
- 5Dolmen.
- 6Derecho que se paga al garitero por el cuidado de prevenir lo necesario para las mesas de juego.
- 7Entrada, puerta de la ciudad.
- 8Escusado, que sólo tiene un asiento y si tiene varios, cada división separada con el suyo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrita,gairta,gariat,garitta,garrita,gartia,ggarita,graita
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "garita"
Frequency rank: #39,245 in Spanish
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