garlocha

/[gaɾˈlot͡ʃa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

garlocha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara que en su extremidad tiene un pequeño arponcillo para asir objetos. Pronounced [gaɾˈlot͡ʃa].

Key facts for garlocha
PropertyValue
Headwordgarlocha
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gaɾˈlot͡ʃa]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

garlocha is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for garlocha is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaɾˈlot͡ʃa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for garlocha 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 garlocha, spelled G-A-R-L-O-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vara que en su extremidad tiene un pequeño arponcillo para asir objetos.
  2. 2
    Vara larga usada para picar toros.
  3. 3
    Vara larga y flexible usada en atletismo para la competición de salto con garrocha, con la que el deportista se impulsa contra el suelo para superar un listón colocado a varios metros de altura.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garlocha"?
"garlocha" is spelled G-A-R-L-O-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is [gaɾˈlot͡ʃa].
What does "garlocha" mean?
As a noun, "garlocha" means: Vara que en su extremidad tiene un pequeño arponcillo para asir objetos.
How do you pronounce "garlocha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garlocha" is [gaɾˈlot͡ʃa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "garlocha" 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.