Grand-daughter or granddaughter?
grand-daughter is a noun meaning “Dated form of granddaughter”; granddaughter is a noun meaning “The daughter of someone's child”. grand-daughter is written with a hyphen and granddaughter as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between grand-daughter and granddaughter?
| grand-daughter | granddaughter | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | The daughter of someone's child | |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | grand-daughters | granddaughters |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 4.0 times per million words |
Sources: grand-daughter and granddaughter in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of grand-daughter and granddaughter
grand-daughter
- 1
datedDated form of granddaughter
granddaughter
- 1
The daughter of someone's child
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, grand-daughter or granddaughter?
grand-daughter is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; granddaughter 4.0 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search grand-daughter vs granddaughter?
“grand-daughter vs granddaughter” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
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