grammar school
"grammar-school" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grammar school” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grammar school |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grammar school” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for grammar school is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grammar school, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gramere scole. The correct English form is grammar school, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-R- -S-C-H-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
- 2A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
- 3Elementary school.
Etymology
From Middle English gramere scole.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “grammar school”
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- -S-C-H-O-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.