grammatical category

noun

"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

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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.

Key facts for grammatical category
PropertyValue
Headwordgrammatical category
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “grammatical category” in English

grammatical categoryfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Part of speech.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how grammatical category appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grammatical category"?
"grammatical category" is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L- -C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y.
What does "grammatical category" mean?
As a noun, "grammatical category" means: Part of speech.
What language does "grammatical category" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list