gorgojo

/[goɾˈɣ̞oxo]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#80,127

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

gorgojo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Curculionidae) Insecto coleóptero herbívoro, de color pardo oscuro, cuerpo ovalado y de unos tres milímetros de largo, con capacidad de multiplicarse rápidamente y muy dañino para los cultivos. Ha... Pronounced [goɾˈɣ̞oxo].

Key facts for gorgojo
PropertyValue
Headwordgorgojo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[goɾˈɣ̞oxo]
Letters7
Frequency rank#80,127
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gorgojo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [goɾˈɣ̞oxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,127 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Curculionidae) Insecto coleóptero herbívoro, de color pardo oscuro, cuerpo ovalado y de unos tres milímetros de largo, con capacidad de multiplicarse rápidamente y muy dañino para los cultivos. Ha...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gorgojo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 gorgojo, spelled G-O-R-G-O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Curculionidae) Insecto coleóptero herbívoro, de color pardo oscuro, cuerpo ovalado y de unos tres milímetros de largo, con capacidad de multiplicarse rápidamente y muy dañino para los cultivos. Hay diversas especies y cada una es peculiar de un cereal.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #80,127 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gorgojo"?
"gorgojo" is spelled G-O-R-G-O-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is [goɾˈɣ̞oxo].
What does "gorgojo" mean?
As a noun, "gorgojo" means: (Curculionidae) Insecto coleóptero herbívoro, de color pardo oscuro, cuerpo ovalado y de unos tres milímetros de largo, con capacidad de multiplicarse rápidamente y muy dañino para los cultivos. Ha...
How do you pronounce "gorgojo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gorgojo" is [goɾˈɣ̞oxo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.