grieves
/ɡɹiːvz/
"grieves" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grieves” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,784
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of grief
Corpus desk
Index EN-grieves · grieves · English
grieves · rank #48,784 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grimly
Nearest frequency peer: grimly (+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 “grieves”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gravitas
gravitas
51,221 corpus weight
- greenback
greenback
51,220 corpus weight
- grieves
grieves
51,217 corpus weight
- grimly
grimly
51,216 corpus weight
- grooved
grooved
51,215 corpus weight
- gutless
gutless
51,212 corpus weight
What this shows “grieves” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grieves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹiːvz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “grieves”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around grieves (IPA /ɡɹiːvz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,784 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for grieves, with forms such as "ggrieves", "gireves", and "greives". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "groves", "Grimes", "grievous", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is grieves, spelled G-R-I-E-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of grief
- 2plural of grieve
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grieves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The time now being come about for payment of the third tribute, when they came to compel the fathers which had children not yet married, to give them to be put forth to take their chance and lot: the citizens of Athens began to murmur against Ægeus, alleging for their grieves⁶, that he, who only was the cause of all this evil, was only alone exempted from…
I am aware that what I am asking of you will mean I will be despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and the people will hide as it were their faces from me. I will be despised, and will be esteemed not. But, let me bear their grieves and carry their sorrows even though they will esteem me stricken, smitten of you and aff…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrieves
- gireves
- greives
- grieevs
- grievess
- grievse
- grievves
- grivees
- grrieves
- rgieves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grieves - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grieves", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).