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grocer's

noun

grocer's is a noun meaning “A shop or store that sells groceries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-C-E-R-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of grocer's is grocers'.

What does grocer's mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A shop or store that sells groceries.

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

How do you pronounce grocer's?

    Grocer's 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).

    Forms of grocer's

    • grocers' plural
    • grocer’s

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

    How common is grocer's?

    Grocer's appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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).

    Grocer's in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense shop selling groceries:

    LanguageWords
    GermanLebensmittelladen, Krämer
    Portuguesemercearia

    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.