exempli gratia
The verdict
“exempli gratia” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dado como ejemplo; por ejemplo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exempli gratia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈek.sem.pliː ˈgraː.ti.aː/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exempli gratia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for exempli gratia is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈek.sem.pliː ˈgraː.ti.aː/. 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: "Dado como ejemplo; por ejemplo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for exempli gratia 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 exempli gratia, spelled E-X-E-M-P-L-I- -G-R-A-T-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dado como ejemplo; por ejemplo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “exempli gratia”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-X-E-M-P-L-I- -G-R-A-T-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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