GPL
[ˈgpl]
The verdict
“GPL” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #81,021 in Spanish word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #81,021
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sigla recurrente de "General Public License" La Licencia Pública General de GNU. Es la licencia más ampliamente usada en el mundo del software y garantiza a los usuarios finales (personas, organiza...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GPL |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈgpl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #81,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “GPL” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for GPL is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgpl]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,021 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sigla recurrente de "General Public License" La Licencia Pública General de GNU. Es la licencia más ampliamente usada en el mundo del software y garantiza a los usuarios finales (personas, organiza...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for GPL, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is GPL, spelled G-P-L.
Definition
- 1Sigla recurrente de "General Public License" La Licencia Pública General de GNU. Es la licencia más ampliamente usada en el mundo del software y garantiza a los usuarios finales (personas, organizaciones, compañías) la libertad de usar, estudiar, compartir (copiar) y modificar el software. Su propósito es declarar que el software cubierto por esta licencia es software libre y protegerlo de intentos de apropiación que restrinjan esas libertades a los usuarios. Esta licencia fue creada originalmente por Richard Stallman fundador de la Free Software Foundation (FSF) para el proyecto GNU.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “GPL”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-P-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgpl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.