# graft

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɡɹɑːft/ · frequency rank #15,622

## Definitions
1. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
2. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
3. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

## Etymology
From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.

## Easily confused with
- **grt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grt)
- **gray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-gray)
- **gram** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-gram)
- **gran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-gran)
- **grit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grit)
- **Gras** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-gras)
- **great** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-great)
- **grand** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grand)
- **grant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grant)
- **grass** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grass)
- **grave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grave)
- **grain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grain)
- **graph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-graph)
- **grasp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grasp)
- **grams** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grams)
- **greet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-greet)
- **grape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grape)
- **gravy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-gravy)
- **grail** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grail)
- **grate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graft-vs-grate)

## Common misspellings (8)
`garft`, `ggraft`, `grafft`, `graftt`, `gratf`, `grfat`, `grraft`, `rgaft`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/graft