grom
"grom" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grom” is uncommon English (frequency #75,926 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,926
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grom · grom · English
grom · rank #75,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,926
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guernica
Nearest frequency peer: Guernica (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “grom”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- goulash
goulash
24,080 corpus weight
- Gozo
Gozo
24,079 corpus weight
- Gracchus
Gracchus
24,078 corpus weight
- grom
grom
24,075 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
24,074 corpus weight
- gumby
gumby
24,073 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grom” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grom” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grom is uncommon English at frequency #75,926 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grom, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortened from grommet. The correct English form is grom, spelled G-R-O-M.
Definition
- 1A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.
Etymology
Shortened from grommet.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).