garrocha
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#79,178
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
garrocha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara que en su extremidad tiene un pequeño arponcillo para asir objetos. Pronounced [gaˈrot͡ʃa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garrocha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈrot͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garrocha is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈrot͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,178 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for garrocha 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 garrocha, spelled G-A-R-R-O-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vara que en su extremidad tiene un pequeño arponcillo para asir objetos.
- 2Vara larga usada para picar toros.
- 3Vara 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.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #79,178 in Spanish
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