paso de ganso
[ˈpaso ð̞e ˈɣ̞ãnso]
The verdict
“paso de ganso” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — En los desfiles militares, paso que se hace elevando las piernas rectas ante sí. Es una forma de presentar honores y saludar desfilando.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paso de ganso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpaso ð̞e ˈɣ̞ãnso] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paso de ganso” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for paso de ganso is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaso ð̞e ˈɣ̞ãnso]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En los desfiles militares, paso que se hace elevando las piernas rectas ante sí. Es una forma de presentar honores y saludar desfilando.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paso de ganso 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 paso de ganso, spelled P-A-S-O- -D-E- -G-A-N-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En los desfiles militares, paso que se hace elevando las piernas rectas ante sí. Es una forma de presentar honores y saludar desfilando.
Synonyms
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Using “paso de ganso”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-S-O- -D-E- -G-A-N-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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