garrafa
[gaˈrafa]
The verdict
“garrafa” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #52,290 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,290
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Recipiente para bebidas u otros fluidos, de forma que recuerda a un cilindro con cuello y boca ancha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garrafa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈrafa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garrafa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garrafa is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈrafa]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,290 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.
garrafa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is garrafa, spelled G-A-R-R-A-F-A.
Definition
- 1Recipiente para bebidas u otros fluidos, de forma que recuerda a un cilindro con cuello y boca ancha.
- 2En particular, garrafa₁ de cuello largo empleada antiguamente para enfriar bebidas o elaborar helados.
- 3En particular, garrafa₁ en forma de vasija forrada de mimbre, empleada para almacenar bebidas o aceites comestibles.
- 4Recipiente estanco en que se almacena combustible a alta presión para uso doméstico o industrial.
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 “garrafa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-R-R-A-F-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gaˈrafa] (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.