Grandma or granma?
grandma is a noun meaning “Grandmother”; granma is a noun meaning “Alternative form of grandma”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) grandma is about 105 times as common as granma.
What is the difference between grandma and granma?
| grandma | granma | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun |
| Meaning | informalGrandmother colloquialAny elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren | Alternative form of grandma |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | grandmas | granmas |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɡɹænmɑː/ /ˈɡɹænmə/ /ˈɡɹæmɑː/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 13 times per million words | about once in every 8 million words |
Sources: grandma and granma 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 grandma and granma
grandma
- 1
informalGrandmother
- 2
colloquialAny elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren
granma
- 1
Alternative form of grandma
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, grandma or granma?
grandma appears 13 times per million words; granma about once in every 8 million words.
grandma 13 times per million wordsgranma about once in every 8 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).