garrafa
[gaˈrafa]
The verdict
“garrafa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,290 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,290
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recipiente para bebidas u otros fluidos, de forma que recuerda a un cilindro con cuello y boca ancha.
Corpus desk
Index ES-garrafa · garrafa · Spanish
garrafa · rank #52,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH garbanzo
Nearest frequency peer: garbanzo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “garrafa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- gamas
gamas
47,713 corpus weight
- garbanzo
garbanzo
47,712 corpus weight
- garrafa
garrafa
47,711 corpus weight
- Geraldo
Geraldo
47,709 corpus weight
- Germania
Germania
47,708 corpus weight
- gets
gets
47,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “garrafa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “garrafa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
garrafa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,290 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gaˈrafa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garrafa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mirad, aquella garrafa que traen de agua es la que sobró en el bacín cuando se lavaron los que tienen la criatura.
Saca el botecillo de la India de todas conservas, y un brocal de alojas, y una garrafa de vino tinto, por que probemos aquí quién pica en montañés y quién en morisco.
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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