groat
/ɡɹoʊt/noun
groat is spelled G-R-O-A-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, groat means “Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of groat is groats.
How many letters and syllables are in groat?
| Letters | 5: G-R-O-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 83,271st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 groat?
Groat appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st 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 groat?
- US /ɡɹoʊt/
- UK /ɡɹəʊt/
- /ɡɹɔːt/
Groat 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-groat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with groat?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as groat from its last stressed vowel (/oʊt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gator, argot, gotra.
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 groat
- groats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does groat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats.
- 2
archaicAny of various old coins of England and Scotland.
- 3
archaicAny unit of currency worth four pence.
- 4
archaicA historical English coin representing such a unit: a silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
- 5
A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Groat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hulled grain:
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 groat come from?
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).