GRAPPATINI has already been shown to allow short acquisition times with diagnostic synthetic T2-weighted (T2w) images in the knee. This study investigates how different effective echo times influence the resulting contrast-to-noise ratio of GRAPPATINI compared to a conventional T2w turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence in the spine. Overall, the synthetic T2w images maintained diagnostic quality while being reconstructed from highly-undersampled k-space data in 2:27 min acquisition time vs. 2:01 min for the T2w TSE with the advantage of GRAPPATINI to also offer multiple synthetic contrasts alongside robust T2 mapping.