gris
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,846
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gris is anSpanishadj. It means: De color entre blanco y negro. :* Color: . Pronounced [ˈgɾis]. It ranks #3,846 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Gus and guía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gris |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈgɾis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gris is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾis]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,846 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for gris, with forms such as "ggris", "girs", and "griss". 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, "Gus", "guía", "grúa", 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 gris, spelled G-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De color entre blanco y negro. :* Color: .
- 2Por extensión, de color o carácter neutro y apagado.
- 3Dicho del clima, cubierto de nubes y poco luminoso.
- 4Metafóricamente, que muestra o denota tristeza y melancolía.
- 5Que es imposible de clasificar o que no se ajusta a un esquema binario (similar a blanco y negro) que permita decidir tal como se esperaba.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggris,girs,griss,grris,grsi,rgis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gris
Misspelling Variants of "gris"
Frequency rank: #3,846 in Spanish
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