mamar gallo
Letters
11 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mamar gallo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar en broma o crear un ambiente de chanza ingeniosa. Pronounced [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamar gallo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mamar gallo is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mamar gallo 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 mamar gallo, spelled M-A-M-A-R- -G-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hablar en broma o crear un ambiente de chanza ingeniosa.
- 2Tomar el pelo, burlarse de alguien, decir algo que no es verdad para reírse de la reacción de quien escucha.
- 3No tomar en serio lo que alguien dice.
- 4No cumplir la ejecución de un compromiso, evadiendo la responsabilidad con pretextos.
- 5Estar por ahí sin hacer nada, perder el tiempo.
- 6Practicar sexo oral.
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