grava
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,800
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grava is aSpanishnoun. It means: Piedra machacada (o la arena más gruesa, que la mayor es de río) con que se cubre y allana el piso de los caminos, las calles de los jardines, etc. Pronounced [ˈgɾaβ̞a]. Often confused with gray and grúa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grava is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾaβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,800 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 grava, with forms such as "garva", "ggrava", and "graav". 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, "gray", "grúa", "grave", 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 grava, spelled G-R-A-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piedra machacada (o la arena más gruesa, que la mayor es de río) con que se cubre y allana el piso de los caminos, las calles de los jardines, etc.
- 2Guijo (conjunto de piedras lisas y pequeñas).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garva,ggrava,graav,gravva,grrava,grvaa,rgava
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grava
Misspelling Variants of "grava"
Frequency rank: #23,800 in Spanish
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