gorrión
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,247
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
gorrión is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Passer domesticus) Pájaro cosmopolita que mide 14,5 cm, en la que predominan el gris y el café, con la garganta y parte superior del pecho negros, encima de los ojos coloración castaño oscura que ... Pronounced [goˈrjõn]. Often confused with gorro and gorros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gorrión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [goˈrjõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gorrión is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [goˈrjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,247 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gorrión, with forms such as "ggorrión", "gorirón", and "gorión". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gorro", "gorros", "gorrito", 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 gorrión, spelled G-O-R-R-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Passer domesticus) Pájaro cosmopolita que mide 14,5 cm, en la que predominan el gris y el café, con la garganta y parte superior del pecho negros, encima de los ojos coloración castaño oscura que se ensancha hacia atrás y luego continúa con un manto estriado de gris y café. Tiene un pico corto y grueso. Las hembras y ejemplares juveniles tienen un colorido menos vistoso. Junto con las palomas, son las Aves que mejor se acomodan con la presencia humana y viven tanto en las ciudades como en el campo.
- 2(Eugenes fulgens) Pequeña ave americana de unos 13 cm, capaz de detenerse en pleno vuelo, de retroceder volando y de mantener un vuelo estacionario. Es de coloración verde, con el dorso verde azulado, una coronilla violeta sobre la cabeza y una mancha blanca tras el ojo. La hembra es menos vistosa. Habita desde el suroeste de los EE.UU. hasta Panamá.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggorrión,gorirón,gorión,gorrinó,gorriónn,gorróin,grorión,ogrrión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gorrión
Misspelling Variants of "gorrión"
Frequency rank: #39,247 in Spanish
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