grande
/ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/adjective, noun
grande is spelled G-R-A-N-D-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, grande means “Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in grande?
| Letters | 6: G-R-A-N-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is grande?
Grande appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 grande?
- /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
- /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
As an adjective (“Alternative form of grand”): /ˈɡɹænd/.
Grande has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-grande.wav, En-us-grand.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with grande
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with grande?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as grande.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: garden, danger, ranged, gander.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of grande
- grandes plural
- more grande comparative
- most grande superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grande mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
USOf a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
- 2
Alternative form of grand.
noun
- 1
USA grande cup of coffee.
- 2
Alternative form of grandee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does grande come from?
Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).