# granola

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/ · frequency rank #29,673

## Definitions
1. A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
2. Ellipsis 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.

## Easily confused with
- **granular** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/granola-vs-granular)
- **grandma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/grandma-vs-granola)
- **grandpa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/grandpa-vs-granola)
- **Granada** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/granada-vs-granola)

## Common misspellings (10)
`garnola`, `ggranola`, `granloa`, `grannola`, `granoal`, `granolla`, `graonla`, `grnaola`, `grranola`, `rganola`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/granola