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grape

/ɡɹeɪp/noun, adjective, verb

grape is spelled G-R-A-P-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grape means “A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grape is grapes.

How many letters and syllables are in grape?

Letters5: G-R-A-P-E
Syllables1
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 grape?

Grape appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 grape?

  • US /ɡɹeɪp/
  • Australia /ɡɹæɪp/
  • /ɡɹep/

Grape has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-grape.ogg, En-us-grape.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with grape?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grape from its last stressed vowel (/eɪp/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pager, gaper.

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 grape

  • grapes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more grape comparative
  • most grape superlative
  • graping participle, present
  • graped participle, past

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

What does grape mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.

    Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.

  2. 2

    Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

    wild grape covering the back slope

  3. 3

    Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.

    sea grape; tail grape

  4. 4

    A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

    For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.

  5. 5

    Clipping of grapeshot.

    men mowed down by grape

  6. 6

    A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

  7. 7

    USslangA purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.

  8. 8

    slangA person's head.

  9. 9

    Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

  2. 2

    Of a dark purplish red colour.

verb

  1. 1

    To pick grapes.

  2. 2

    Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.

  3. 3

    To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.

  4. 4

    To grope.

  5. 5

    To envy (from sour grapes).

  6. 6

    Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

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

Grape in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgrain de raisin (fruit)
GermanTraube, Weintraube, Weinbeere (fruit)
Portugueseuva (fruit), de uva (flavour)
Spanishuva, malvasía, masvale (fruit)

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 grape come from?

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

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

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