grassroots
/ˈɡɹɑːs.ɹuːts/
"grassroots" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grassroots” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,178
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grassroots · grassroots · English
grassroots · rank #15,178 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,178
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glee
Nearest frequency peer: glee (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “grassroots”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gardener
gardener
84,826 corpus weight
- glee
glee
84,824 corpus weight
- grassroots
grassroots
84,823 corpus weight
- gravitation…
gravitational
84,822 corpus weight
- grazing
grazing
84,821 corpus weight
- Guinness
Guinness
84,820 corpus weight
What this shows “grassroots” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grassroots |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹɑːs.ɹuːts/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “grassroots”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around grassroots (IPA /ˈɡɹɑːs.ɹuːts/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,178 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for grassroots, with forms such as "garssroots", "ggrassroots", and "grasroots". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From grass + roots. The correct English form is grassroots, spelled G-R-A-S-S-R-O-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grassroots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.
Etymology
From grass + roots.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garssroots
- ggrassroots
- grasroots
- grasrsoots
- grassorots
- grassroost
- grassrootss
- grassrootts
- grassrotos
- grassrots
- grassrroots
- grrassroots
- grsasroots
- rgassroots
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grassroots - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grassroots", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).