grado

/[ˈgɾað̞o]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,317

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Valor, situación, estado o calidad que una cosa puede tener, en una escala ascendente o descendente, en relación con otra. Pronounced [ˈgɾað̞o]. It ranks #1,317 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gran and gray.

Key facts for grado
PropertyValue
Headwordgrado
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgɾað̞o]
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,317
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for grado is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,317 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grado, with forms such as "gardo", "ggrado", and "graddo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gran", "gray", "Grau", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 grado, spelled G-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Valor, situación, estado o calidad que una cosa puede tener, en una escala ascendente o descendente, en relación con otra.
  2. 2
    Medida o valor que se aplica a algo que puede variar su intensidad.
  3. 3
    Vínculo que define la proximidad en el parentesco entre las personas.
  4. 4
    Titulación universitaria que sustituyó a las anteriores licenciaturas, diplomaturas e ingenierías, con una duración común en España de 4 años o 240 créditos ECTS equivalente a un nivel MECES 2.
  5. 5
    En ciertas escuelas o colegios, cada uno de los grupos en que están integrados los alumnos de acuerdo a su edad y el nivel de sus conocimientos.
  6. 6
    Cada uno de los niveles existentes en la escala jerárquica de una institución.
  7. 7
    Jerarquía.
  8. 8
    Unidad empleada en ciertas escalas de medidas.
  9. 9
    Unidad porcentual de alcohol presente en una bebida.
  10. 10
    Cada una de las partes en que se divide una escalera.
  11. 11
    Cualquiera de las distintas instancias reconocidas que puede tener un pleito o causa.
  12. 12
    Cada una de las 360 partes iguales en que se considera dividida la circunferencia.
  13. 13
    Indica la intensidad relativa de la cualidad expresada por el adjetivo.
  14. 14
    Número de orden que expresa el de factores de la misma especie que están comprendidos en un término o en alguna de sus partes.
  15. 15
    En una ecuación o en un polinomio, valor del mayor exponente al que se eleva la incógnita.
  16. 16
    Ceremonia o acto académico en el que se concede un título universitario.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gardo,ggrado,graddo,graod,grdao,grrado,rgado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grado

Misspelling Variants of "grado"

gardo5ggrado6graddo6graod5grdao5grrado6rgado5
Misspelling Variants of "grado"

Frequency rank: #1,317 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grado"?
"grado" is spelled G-R-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgɾað̞o].
What does "grado" mean?
As a noun, "grado" means: Valor, situación, estado o calidad que una cosa puede tener, en una escala ascendente o descendente, en relación con otra.
What words are commonly confused with "grado"?
"grado" is commonly confused with "gran", "gray", "Grau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grado" is [ˈgɾað̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grado" come from?
"grado" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.