garrucha
[gaˈrut͡ʃa]
The verdict
“garrucha” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Máquina compuesta de una ó muchas rodajas que giran sobre unos ejes de hierro, y están suspendidas por ambos extremos de dos barrotes, en las cuales hay una canal por donde pasa una cuerda ó maroma...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garrucha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈrut͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garrucha” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for garrucha is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈrut͡ʃa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Máquina compuesta de una ó muchas rodajas que giran sobre unos ejes de hierro, y están suspendidas por ambos extremos de dos barrotes, en las cuales hay una canal por donde pasa una cuerda ó maroma...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for garrucha, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is garrucha, spelled G-A-R-R-U-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Máquina compuesta de una ó muchas rodajas que giran sobre unos ejes de hierro, y están suspendidas por ambos extremos de dos barrotes, en las cuales hay una canal por donde pasa una cuerda ó maroma, con la que se mueven ó levantan piedras ú otros cuerpos de mucho peso. Segun el número de garruchas ó poleas de que se compone esta máquina, toma nombre diferente: si de una, se llama monopastos; si de dos, dispastos; si de tres, trispastos; y si de mas, polispastos ó polea compuesta.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “garrucha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-R-R-U-C-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gaˈrut͡ʃa] (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.