gas
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,636
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia con movilidad molecular perfecta y la propiedad de expansión ilimitada, en oposición a los sólidos y líquidos. Pronounced [ˈgas]. It ranks #1,636 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with go and gr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgas] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gas is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgas]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,636 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gas in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "ge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 gas, spelled G-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia con movilidad molecular perfecta y la propiedad de expansión ilimitada, en oposición a los sólidos y líquidos.
- 2Cualquier fluido o mezcla de fluidos gaseosos₁.
- 3Por antonomasia, los que se emplean como carburante en industria o para las cocinas domésticas.
- 4Por antonomasia, los que se producen en el sistema digestivo como subproducto de la digestión.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #1,636 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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