golfo

/[ˈgolfo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,113

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

golfo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Gran porción de mar que entra en la tierra. Pronounced [ˈgolfo]. It ranks #5,113 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gozo and gulf.

Key facts for golfo
PropertyValue
Headwordgolfo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgolfo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,113
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of golfo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for golfo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgolfo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,113 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gran porción de mar que entra en la tierra.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for golfo, with forms such as "ggolfo", "glofo", and "goflo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gozo", "gulf", "Goyo", 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 golfo, spelled G-O-L-F-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gran porción de mar que entra en la tierra.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggolfo,glofo,goflo,golffo,gollfo,golof,oglfo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for golfo

Misspelling Variants of "golfo"

ggolfo6glofo5goflo5golffo6gollfo6golof5oglfo5
Misspelling Variants of "golfo"

Frequency rank: #5,113 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "golfo"?
"golfo" is spelled G-O-L-F-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgolfo].
What does "golfo" mean?
As a noun, "golfo" means: Gran porción de mar que entra en la tierra.
What words are commonly confused with "golfo"?
"golfo" is commonly confused with "gozo", "gulf", "Goyo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "golfo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "golfo" is [ˈgolfo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "golfo" come from?
"golfo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.