goulash

/[gowˈlaʃ]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

goulash is aSpanishnoun. It means: Plato húngaro que consiste en un estofado espeso de carne y vegetales (y a veces papas), condimentado con paprika. Pronounced [gowˈlaʃ].

Key facts for goulash
PropertyValue
Headwordgoulash
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gowˈlaʃ]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

goulash is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for goulash is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gowˈlaʃ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for goulash 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 goulash, spelled G-O-U-L-A-S-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plato húngaro que consiste en un estofado espeso de carne y vegetales (y a veces papas), condimentado con paprika.
  2. 2
    Tipo de salsa empleada para dicho plato.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "goulash"?
"goulash" is spelled G-O-U-L-A-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is [gowˈlaʃ].
What does "goulash" mean?
As a noun, "goulash" means: Plato húngaro que consiste en un estofado espeso de carne y vegetales (y a veces papas), condimentado con paprika.
How do you pronounce "goulash"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "goulash" is [gowˈlaʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "goulash" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.