grasa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,794
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grasa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia orgánica formada por varios ácidos grasos unidos a un alcohol, normalmente glicerol, componiendo así un ester. Por su alta energía química, las grasas son la forma elegida por los organis... Pronounced [ˈgɾasa]. It ranks #4,794 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gris and gray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grasa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾasa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grasa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,794 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 grasa, with forms such as "garsa", "ggrasa", and "graas". 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, "gris", "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 grasa, spelled G-R-A-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia orgánica formada por varios ácidos grasos unidos a un alcohol, normalmente glicerol, componiendo así un ester. Por su alta energía química, las grasas son la forma elegida por los organismos para almacenar la energía obtenida en el metabolismo de los alimentos.
- 2Tejido de los animales rico en grasa₁ en forma de adipocitos, cuya función es el almacenamiento de energía, así como el mantenimiento de la temperatura corporal y la secreción de algunas hormonas. El exceso de este tipo de tejido es la condición clínica conocida como gordura.
- 3Este tejido de origen animal, extraído para su uso como alimento, sea en forma pura o parcialmente refinado y homogeneizado.
- 4Hidrocarburo utilizado como lubricante por su viscosidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garsa,ggrasa,graas,grassa,grrasa,grsaa,rgasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "grasa"
Frequency rank: #4,794 in Spanish
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