granola
/ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/
"granola" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“granola” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #29,673 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #29,673
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “granola” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for granola is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/. Corpus data places it at rank #29,673 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for granola, with forms such as "garnola", "ggranola", and "granloa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "granular", "grandma", "grandpa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who inve… The correct English form is granola, spelled G-R-A-N-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
- 2Ellipsis of crunchy granola.
Etymology
Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garnola,ggranola,granloa,grannola,granoal,granolla,graonla,grnaola,grranola,rganola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of granola - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “granola”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-A-N-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “granular” - see the side-by-side comparison. granola vs granular
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.