gran

adj

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,731

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gran is anPortugueseadj. It means: grão/grã, forma reduzida de grande; usa-se somente anteposto ao substantivo. Often confused with gun and grau.

Key facts for gran
PropertyValue
Headwordgran
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters4
Frequency rank#10,731
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gran in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gran is 4 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #10,731 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "grão/grã, forma reduzida de grande; usa-se somente anteposto ao substantivo.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for gran, with forms such as "garn", "ggran", and "grann". 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, "gun", "grau", "grão", 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 Portuguese form is gran, spelled G-R-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    grão/grã, forma reduzida de grande; usa-se somente anteposto ao substantivo.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garn,ggran,grann,grna,grran,rgan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gran

Misspelling Variants of "gran"

garn4ggran5grann5grna4grran5rgan4
Misspelling Variants of "gran"

Frequency rank: #10,731 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gran"?
"gran" is spelled G-R-A-N.
What does "gran" mean?
As an adj, "gran" means: grão/grã, forma reduzida de grande; usa-se somente anteposto ao substantivo.
What words are commonly confused with "gran"?
"gran" is commonly confused with "gun", "grau", "grão". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "gran" come from?
"gran" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese 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.