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grant

/ɡɹænt/verb, noun

grant is spelled G-R-A-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, grant means “To give (permission or wish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in grant?

Letters5: G-R-A-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is grant?

Grant appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 grant?

  • UK /ɡɹɑːnt/
  • Australia /ɡɹɐːnt/
  • US /ɡɹænt/

Grant 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: En-us-grant.ogg, En-us-Grant.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with grant?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grant from its last stressed vowel (/ænt/):

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 grant

  • grants present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • granting participle, present
  • granted participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does grant mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To give (permission or wish).

    He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

  2. 2

    To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).

    He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.

  3. 3

    To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

    The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

  4. 4

    To assent; to consent.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of granting or giving

    the grant of permission for a project

  2. 2

    The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

  3. 3

    The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

    I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.

  4. 4

    A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

    a grant of land or of money

  5. 5

    The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.

  6. 6

    informalAn application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

noun

as Grant
  1. 1

    USslangA United States fifty-dollar bill.

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

Grant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaccorder, attribuer (to give over), octroyer (to bestow or confer, with or without…), admettre (to admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily…), subvention, bourse (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)
Germangewähren (to give over), erteilen (to bestow or confer, with or without…), bewilligen (to assent; to consent)
Portugueseconceder (to give over), subvenção (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon), concessão (the act of granting; a bestowing or conferring…)
Spanishotorgar (to give over), subvención, beca (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon), patrocinio (informal: application for money)

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.

Where does grant come from?

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel.

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

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