GPL

/[ˈgpl]/ abbrev

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#81,021

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

GPL is anSpanishabbrev. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈgpl].

Key facts for GPL
PropertyValue
HeadwordGPL
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAbbrev
IPA[ˈgpl]
Letters3
Frequency rank#81,021
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for GPL is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev, 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...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for GPL 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 GPL, spelled G-P-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    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, 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.

Frequency rank: #81,021 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "GPL"?
"GPL" is spelled G-P-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgpl].
What does "GPL" mean?
As an abbrev, "GPL" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "GPL"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "GPL" is [ˈgpl]. 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.