griefs
"griefs" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“griefs” is uncommon English (frequency #89,419 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,419
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of grief
Corpus desk
Index EN-griefs · griefs · English
griefs · rank #89,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,419
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gren
Nearest frequency peer: gren (-2 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 “griefs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Grahamstown
Grahamstown
10,587 corpus weight
- grandiosity
grandiosity
10,586 corpus weight
- gren
gren
10,584 corpus weight
- griefs
griefs
10,582 corpus weight
- guyot
guyot
10,577 corpus weight
- halberd
halberd
10,573 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “griefs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | griefs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “griefs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
griefs is uncommon English at frequency #89,419 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of grief".
Zero misspellings are on record for griefs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is griefs, spelled G-R-I-E-F-S.
Definition
- 1plural of grief
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how griefs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
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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