garrafal
[garaˈfal]
The verdict
“garrafal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,615 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,615
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dicho de cierta especie de guindas y cerezas, mayores y de mejor gusto que las comunes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garrafal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [garaˈfal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garrafal” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
garrafal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,615 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [garaˈfal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for garrafal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct Spanish form is garrafal, spelled G-A-R-R-A-F-A-L.
Definition
- 1Dicho de cierta especie de guindas y cerezas, mayores y de mejor gusto que las comunes.
- 2Dicho de los árboles que las producen.
- 3Aplícase en sentido figurado a ciertas cosas exorbitantes.
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 “garrafal”
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-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [garaˈfal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.