grist
/ɡɹɪst/noun, verb
grist is spelled G-R-I-S-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grist means “Grain that is to be ground in a mill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grist is grists.
How many letters and syllables are in grist?
| Letters | 5: G-R-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 grist?
Grist appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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 grist?
- /ɡɹɪst/
Grist has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-grist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with grist?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as grist.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: grits.
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 grist
- grists plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gristing participle, present
- gristed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
- 2
datedA group of bees.
- 3
colloquialobsoleteSupply; provision.
- 4
A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
- 5
Ellipsis of grist for the mill.
verb
- 1
To grind in a mill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Grist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense grain that is to be ground in a mill:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grain à moudre |
| German | Mahlgut |
| Spanish | grano (para molino), molienda |
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 grist come from?
From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), of obscure origin: possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language, or from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).