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grapo

Spanish, noun

grapo is spelled G-R-A-P-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 108,574th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grapo is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a member of GRAPO, a Spanish clandestine violent militant Maoist group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Marxist-Leninist Republican…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of grapar. With an accent, grapó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of grapar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Persona que pertenece a la organización GRAPO”.

What does grapo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinea member of GRAPO, a Spanish clandestine violent militant Maoist group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Marxist-Leninist Republican state, based on the model of Maoist China

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of grapar

verb

as grapó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of grapar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Persona que pertenece a la organización GRAPO.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of grapo

  • grapos plural
  • grapa feminine
  • grapas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is grapo in Spanish?

grapo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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