goma
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,967
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
goma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia elástica y flexible obtenida a partir del látex de varias especies vegetales o sintetizada a partir del petróleo, que se emplea por su impermeabilidad y otras propiedades físicas en la fa... Pronounced [ˈgoma]. It ranks #5,967 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with got and gua.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgoma] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for goma is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgoma]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,967 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for goma, with forms such as "ggoma", "gmoa", and "goam". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "got", "gua", "guía", 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 goma, spelled G-O-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia elástica y flexible obtenida a partir del látex de varias especies vegetales o sintetizada a partir del petróleo, que se emplea por su impermeabilidad y otras propiedades físicas en la fabricación de numerosos utensilios.
- 2Banda de este material utilizada para sujetar objetos.
- 3Sustancia viscosa obtenida de diversos vegetales y utilizada como adhesivo o espesante soluble en agua, consistente fundamentalmente en polisacáridos.
- 4Neumático.
- 5Bloque de goma₁ muy elástica utilizado para eliminar por fricción inscripciones hechas con lápiz o tinta sobre papel.
- 6Condón.
- 7Pastilla de golosina pequeña y masticable a base de gelatina y sabores de frutas.
- 8Afición intensa por una actividad o moda, en particular si es recientemente descubierta.
- 9Porra de goma₁ utilizada por las fuerzas de seguridad para reducir a los detenidos.^([cita requerida]).
- 10Acción y efecto de golpear o castigar físicamente, especialmente a personas.
- 11Malestar que se sufre después de haberse embriagado con bebidas alcohólicas.
- 12Calzado para deportes.
- 13Tumor esférico causado por o relacionado con la sífilis.
- 14Tumor óseo o cartilaginoso que inmoviliza las extremidades de los caballos, mulas, burros, etc.
- 15Cada una de las mamas de la mujer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggoma,gmoa,goam,gomma,ogma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for goma
Misspelling Variants of "goma"
Frequency rank: #5,967 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "goma"?
What does "goma" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "goma"?
How do you pronounce "goma"?
What language does "goma" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: