grice
/ɡɹʌɪs/
"grice" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grice” is uncommon English (frequency #63,659 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,659
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grice · grice · English
grice · rank #63,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,659
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH greenstone
Nearest frequency peer: greenstone (-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 “grice”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gramma
gramma
36,345 corpus weight
- greasing
greasing
36,344 corpus weight
- greenstone
greenstone
36,343 corpus weight
- grice
grice
36,342 corpus weight
- grievously
grievously
36,341 corpus weight
- gulps
gulps
36,339 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grice” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹʌɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grice is uncommon English at frequency #63,659 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɹʌɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grice in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”). The correct English form is grice, spelled G-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray
Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
Etymology
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
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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