gripe española
[ˈgɾipe espaˈɲola]
The verdict
“gripe española” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pandemia de gripe que, entre los años 1918 y 1920 mató a entre 20 y 40 millones de personas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gripe española |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾipe espaˈɲola] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gripe española” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gripe española is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾipe espaˈɲola]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pandemia de gripe que, entre los años 1918 y 1920 mató a entre 20 y 40 millones de personas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gripe española 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 gripe española, spelled G-R-I-P-E- -E-S-P-A-Ñ-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pandemia de gripe que, entre los años 1918 y 1920 mató a entre 20 y 40 millones de personas.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-R-I-P-E- -E-S-P-A-Ñ-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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