grammatical category
"grammatical-category" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grammatical category” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Part of speech.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grammatical-category · grammatical category · English
grammatical category · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grammatical category |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grammatical category” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grammatical category is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Part of speech.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grammatical category in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is grammatical category, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L- -C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Part of speech.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grammatical category appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
First, the AWL lacks part-of-speech information so does not allow users to see which vocabulary can be used for multiple grammatical categories nor which grammatical category is more frequent.
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.