garra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,592
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
garra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Uñas largas, fuertes y curvadas que poseen algunos animales, especialmente carnívoros. Pronounced [ˈgara]. Often confused with gira and Gary.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgara] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgara]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,592 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for garra, with forms such as "agrra", "garar", and "ggarra". 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, "gira", "Gary", "gaza", 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 garra, spelled G-A-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uñas largas, fuertes y curvadas que poseen algunos animales, especialmente carnívoros.
- 2Por extensión, manos y patas de estos animales, o figurativamente de una persona rapaz y cruel.
- 3Cada uno de los ganchos del arpeo.
- 4Vigor, voluntad.
- 5Pierna.
- 6Extremidad del cuero por donde se afianza en las estacas al estirarlo.
- 7Pedazo de cuero endurecido y arrugado.
- 8Saco de cuero.
- 9Cualquiera de las prendas del apero de montar.
- 10Objeto de calidad deplorable.
- 11Cantidad pequeña de algo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrra,garar,ggarra,grara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for garra
Misspelling Variants of "garra"
Frequency rank: #16,592 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: