mamar gallo

/[maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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mamar gallo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar en broma o crear un ambiente de chanza ingeniosa. Pronounced [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo].

Key facts for mamar gallo
PropertyValue
Headwordmamar gallo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Hablar en broma o crear un ambiente de chanza ingeniosa.
  2. 2
    Tomar el pelo, burlarse de alguien, decir algo que no es verdad para reírse de la reacción de quien escucha.
  3. 3
    No tomar en serio lo que alguien dice.
  4. 4
    No cumplir la ejecución de un compromiso, evadiendo la responsabilidad con pretextos.
  5. 5
    Estar por ahí sin hacer nada, perder el tiempo.
  6. 6
    Practicar sexo oral.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mamar gallo"?
"mamar gallo" is spelled M-A-M-A-R- -G-A-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo].
What does "mamar gallo" mean?
As a phrase, "mamar gallo" means: Hablar en broma o crear un ambiente de chanza ingeniosa.
How do you pronounce "mamar gallo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mamar gallo" is [maˈmaɾ ˈɣ̞aʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mamar gallo" come from?
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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.