grama
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,221
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grama is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cynodon dactylon) Hierba de la familia de las gramíneas, tallo rastrero, hojas cortas y planas, flores en espigas. Mide entre diez y quince cm. de altura. Es cosmopolita e invade todo tipo de terr... Pronounced [ˈgɾama]. Often confused with gran and gray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾama] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grama is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾama]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,221 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 grama, with forms such as "garma", "ggrama", and "graam". 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", "grúa", 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 grama, spelled G-R-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cynodon dactylon) Hierba de la familia de las gramíneas, tallo rastrero, hojas cortas y planas, flores en espigas. Mide entre diez y quince cm. de altura. Es cosmopolita e invade todo tipo de terrenos; se la considera una plaga. Los rizomas y estolones se usan en medicina natural en cocción como depurativo, diurético, expectorante y febrífugo.
- 2Hierba menuda sin tronco con hojas pequeñas que se planta en parques y jardines con fines ornamentales y en campos deportivos para practicar deportes sobre un tapiz vegetal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garma,ggrama,graam,gramma,grmaa,grrama,rgama
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Misspelling Variants of "grama"
Frequency rank: #44,221 in Spanish
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