groceries
/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
"groceries" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groceries” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #11,712 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,712
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
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|---|---|
| Headword | groceries |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groceries” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for groceries is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,712 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for groceries, with forms such as "ggroceries", "gorceries", and "grcoeries". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is groceries, spelled G-R-O-C-E-R-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggroceries,gorceries,grcoeries,grocceries,groceires,grocereis,groceriess,grocerise,grocerries,grocreies,groecries,grroceries,rgoceries
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of groceries - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “groceries”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-O-C-E-R-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby English words
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