grave
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,637
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grave is anSpanishadj. It means: De gran importancia o con consecuencias serias. Pronounced [ˈgɾaβ̞e]. It ranks #1,637 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gray and gripe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grave |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈgɾaβ̞e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grave is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾaβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,637 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 grave, with forms such as "garve", "ggrave", and "graev". 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", "gripe", "grité", 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 grave, spelled G-R-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De gran importancia o con consecuencias serias.
- 2Que tiene peso, que está sometido a la gravedad.
- 3Con actitud o comportamiento serio, reflexivo, solemne y que inspira respeto.
- 4Se dice del estilo que manifiesta solemnidad y decoro.
- 5Se dice del sonido hueco y bajo por contraposición al agudo.
- 6Dicho de una palabra, que su acento prosódico recae en la penúltima sílaba.
- 7Que requiere esfuerzo o presenta obstáculos.
- 8Dicho de una enfermedad o condición, que se manifiesta de forma muy intensa, a menudo a riesgo de perder la vida.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garve,ggrave,graev,gravve,grrave,grvae,rgave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grave
Misspelling Variants of "grave"
Frequency rank: #1,637 in Spanish
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