grandee
/ɡɹænˈdiː/
"grandee" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grandee” is uncommon English (frequency #76,815 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,815
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grandee · grandee · English
grandee · rank #76,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grabby
Nearest frequency peer: grabby (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “grandee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gleaning
gleaning
23,195 corpus weight
- Godley
Godley
23,192 corpus weight
- Gogglebox
Gogglebox
23,191 corpus weight
- grabby
grabby
23,187 corpus weight
- grandee
grandee
23,186 corpus weight
- gue
gue
23,179 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grandee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grandee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹænˈdiː/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grandee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grandee is uncommon English at frequency #76,815 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɹænˈdiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grandee, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish grande (adjective), from Latin grandis (“large, great”). Doublet of grand and grande. The correct English form is grandee, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E-E.
Definition
- 1A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
- 2A person of high rank.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grandee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they whic…
I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish grande (adjective), from Latin grandis (“large, great”). Doublet of grand and grande.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).