grater
/ˈɡɹeɪtə/
"grater" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grater” is uncommon English (frequency #52,355 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,355
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
Corpus desk
Index EN-grater · grater · English
grater · rank #52,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH governorate
Nearest frequency peer: governorate (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “grater”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gordie
Gordie
47,649 corpus weight
- goring
goring
47,648 corpus weight
- governorate
governorate
47,647 corpus weight
- grater
grater
47,646 corpus weight
- Grogan
Grogan
47,645 corpus weight
- gruelling
gruelling
47,644 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grater” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grater |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹeɪtə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grater” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grater is uncommon English at frequency #52,355 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɹeɪtə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump".
Zero misspellings are on record for grater in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French grateor. See grate. By surface analysis, grate (“to scrape, etc.”) + -er. The correct English form is grater, spelled G-R-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?
As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.
Etymology
From Old French grateor. See grate. By surface analysis, grate (“to scrape, etc.”) + -er.
This word in other languages
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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