grid
/ɡɹɪd/noun, verb
grid is spelled G-R-I-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grid means “A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grid is grids.
How many letters and syllables are in grid?
| Letters | 4: G-R-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 grid?
Grid appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 grid?
- /ɡɹɪd/
Grid has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-grid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with grid?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as grid.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gird.
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 grid
- grids plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gridding participle, present
- gridded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- 2
A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- 3
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
- 4
A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- 5
A method of marking off maps into areas.
- 6
The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- 7
The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- 8
A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
verb
- 1
To mark with a grid.
- 2
To assign a reference grid to.
- 3
To enter in a grid.
On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
noun
- 1
datedoffensiveAcronym of gay-related immunodeficiency (“AIDS”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Grid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grille , réseau , grille de contrôle |
| German | Gitter, Gatter , Stromnetz, Leitungsnetz , Gitternetz, Gradnetz |
| Portuguese | matriz, quadriculado , rede elétrica , grade, grelha, grid |
| Spanish | cuadrícula, matriz, retícula , red , rejilla , cuadricular |
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 grid come from?
Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).