grizzly
/ˈɡɹɪzli/adjective, noun
grizzly is spelled G-R-I-Z-Z-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is grizzley: about 430 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Grizzly is an adjective meaning “Grey-haired, greyish”.
How do you spell grizzly?
Grizzly is spelled G-R-I-Z-Z-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for grizzly in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does grizzly mean?
adjective
- 1
Grey-haired, greyish.
- 2
Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
a grizzly baby
noun
- 1
A grizzly bear.
Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!
- 2
CanadaUSA grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.
Wiktionary also records grizzly as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce grizzly?
- /ˈɡɹɪzli/
Grizzly has 2 syllables (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-grizzly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of grizzly
- grizzlier comparative
- grizzliest superlative
- grizzlies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is grizzly?
Grizzly appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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).
Words people confuse with grizzly
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: grisly (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: grisly.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does grizzly come from?
From grizzle + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).