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grif

/ɡɹɪf/noun

grif is spelled G-R-I-F: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grif means “Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grif is grifs.

How many letters and syllables are in grif?

Letters4: G-R-I-F
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 grif?

Grif appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 grif?

  • /ɡɹɪf/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with grif?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as grif.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: frig.

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 grif

  • grifs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does grif mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    datedAlternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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