gavia
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,991
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gavia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Jaula de madera en que se encierra al loco o furioso. Pronounced [ˈgaβ̞ja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gavia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgaβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gavia is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgaβ̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,991 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gavia 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 gavia, spelled G-A-V-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jaula de madera en que se encierra al loco o furioso.
- 2Casco de la armadura.
- 3Zanja que se abre en la tierra para desagüe o linde de propiedades.
- 4Hoyo o zanja que se hace en la tierra para plantar los árboles o las cepas.
- 5Cofa, especie de rellano hecho de madera en la parte superior de los mástiles, en las galeras.
- 6Vela colocada en el mastelero del palo mayor de una embarcación.
- 7Por extensión: Velas de los masteleros de trinquete (velacho) y mesana (sobremesana).
Frequency rank: #82,991 in Spanish
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