gofio
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5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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gofio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mezcla de granos de centeno, trigo y millo (maíz) tostados y molidos a la piedra al que se le añade una pizca de sal. Fue el alimento por excelencia del los guanches. En tiempos difíciles, base de ... Pronounced [ˈgofjo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gofio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgofjo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for gofio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgofjo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gofio 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 gofio, spelled G-O-F-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mezcla de granos de centeno, trigo y millo (maíz) tostados y molidos a la piedra al que se le añade una pizca de sal. Fue el alimento por excelencia del los guanches. En tiempos difíciles, base de alimentación del pueblo canario. Hoy forma parte de la gastronomía canaria.
- 2Harina que se fabrica con trigo o maíz molido en una piedra, previamente tostado y a veces mezclado con linaza. Se consume de diversas formas y tiene uso como alimento de marcha entre cazadores, baqueanos y practicantes de deporte aventura.
- 3Cualquier preparación hecha con gofio₂, sobre todo la más simple, con agua y azúcar.
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