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gramps

noun

gramps is spelled G-R-A-M-P-S: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gramps means “Grandpa, grandfather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in gramps?

Letters6: G-R-A-M-P-S
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is gramps?

Gramps appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 gramps?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gramps.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does gramps mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialGrandpa, grandfather.

  2. 2

    derogatoryOld man.

    Hey gramps, get off the road!

  3. 3

    plural of gramp (a form of gramp)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Gramps in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpépé (grandfather), papy (old man)
GermanOpa (grandfather)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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