gripe

/[ˈgɾipe]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,123

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

gripe is aSpanishnoun. It means: Enfermedad viral muy contagiosa, que afecta las vías respiratorias y causa fiebre. Pronounced [ˈgɾipe]. It ranks #8,123 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gris and guíe.

Key facts for gripe
PropertyValue
Headwordgripe
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgɾipe]
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,123
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gripe in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gripe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾipe]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,123 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Enfermedad viral muy contagiosa, que afecta las vías respiratorias y causa fiebre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gripe, with forms such as "ggripe", "girpe", and "griep". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gris", "guíe", "grupo", 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 gripe, spelled G-R-I-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enfermedad viral muy contagiosa, que afecta las vías respiratorias y causa fiebre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggripe,girpe,griep,grippe,grpie,grripe,rgipe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gripe

Misspelling Variants of "gripe"

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Misspelling Variants of "gripe"

Frequency rank: #8,123 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gripe"?
"gripe" is spelled G-R-I-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgɾipe].
What does "gripe" mean?
As a noun, "gripe" means: Enfermedad viral muy contagiosa, que afecta las vías respiratorias y causa fiebre.
What words are commonly confused with "gripe"?
"gripe" is commonly confused with "gris", "guíe", "grupo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gripe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gripe" is [ˈgɾipe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gripe" come from?
"gripe" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.