groot
The verdict
“groot” is uncommon German (frequency #52,132 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,132
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von erheblichem Ausmaß, groß
Corpus desk
Index DE-groot · groot · German
groot · rank #52,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,401
- PHOTO-FINISH Greece
Nearest frequency peer: Greece (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “groot”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gratulierte
gratulierte
47,873 corpus weight
- grauenvoll
grauenvoll
47,872 corpus weight
- Greece
Greece
47,870 corpus weight
- groot
groot
47,869 corpus weight
- Grundeinste…
Grundeinstellung
47,867 corpus weight
- Grundlinie
Grundlinie
47,866 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “groot” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groot” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
groot is uncommon German at frequency #52,132 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for groot in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is groot, spelled G-R-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1von erheblichem Ausmaß, groß
- 2erwachsen
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.