grammar
/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/
"grammar" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grammar” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #5,420 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,420
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grammar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grammar” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for grammar is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,420 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for grammar, with forms such as "garmmar", "ggrammar", and "gramamr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Grammy", "Grammer", "gamma", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing… The correct English form is grammar, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
- 2A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
- 3Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
- 4A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
- 5A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- 6A formal system defining a formal language.
- 7The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
- 8A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
- 9Ellipsis of grammar school.
- 10A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
Etymology
From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garmmar,ggrammar,gramamr,gramar,grammarr,grammra,grmamar,grrammar,rgammar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grammar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “grammar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-A-M-M-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Grammy” - see the side-by-side comparison. grammar vs Grammy
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.