gratia
[ˈgraː.tɪ.a]
The verdict
“gratia” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #86,841 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,841
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Demostración de favor a otro, buena voluntad, amabilidad, estima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gratia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgraː.tɪ.a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gratia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gratia is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgraː.tɪ.a]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,841 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for 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 gratia, spelled 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
- 1Demostración de favor a otro, buena voluntad, amabilidad, estima.
- 2Demostración de favor a otro, buena voluntad, amabilidad, estima.
- 3Buenas relaciones entre dos o más personas, amistad.
- 4En sentido negativo: parcialidad, favoritismo.
- 5Agradecimiento, reconocimiento, gratitud.
- 6Agradecimiento, reconocimiento, gratitud.
- 7Popularidad, estima, crédito.
- 8Popularidad, estima, crédito.
- 9Cualidad de ser encantador o agradable, gracia, atractivo, encanto.
- 10En ablativo singular, empleado como preposición, con genitivo subjetivo/objetivo, y generalmente posicionado después del sustantivo dominante: por amor de, por el bien de, por, en favor de (una persona o cosa), por el propósito de, por consideración a, etc.
- 11En ablativo singular, empleado como preposición, con genitivo subjetivo/objetivo, y generalmente posicionado después del sustantivo dominante: por amor de, por el bien de, por, en favor de (una persona o cosa), por el propósito de, por consideración a, etc.
- 12En ablativo singular, empleado como preposición, con genitivo subjetivo/objetivo, y generalmente posicionado después del sustantivo dominante: por amor de, por el bien de, por, en favor de (una persona o cosa), por el propósito de, por consideración a, etc.
- 13En ablativo plural, empleado como adverbio, generalmente con la forma alternativa grātis en lugar de grātiis: sin intereses de lucro, por nada, gratis.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gratia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-R-A-T-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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