grail
/ɡɹeɪl/noun
grail is spelled G-R-A-I-L: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grail means “The Holy Grail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grail is grails.
How many letters and syllables are in grail?
| Letters | 5: G-R-A-I-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is grail?
Grail appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce grail?
- /ɡɹeɪl/
Grail has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-grail.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of grail
- grails plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grail mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The Holy Grail.
- 2
Something eagerly sought or quested for.
Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
- 3
A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
- 4
Small particles of earth; gravel.
- 5
One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does grail come from?
From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).