groom
/ɡɹuːm/
"groom" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groom” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,430. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,430
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man who is about to marry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-groom · groom · English
groom · rank #12,430 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,430
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gill
Nearest frequency peer: gill (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “groom”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gee
gee
87,574 corpus weight
- gigantic
gigantic
87,573 corpus weight
- gill
gill
87,572 corpus weight
- groom
groom
87,571 corpus weight
- guarded
guarded
87,570 corpus weight
- guitarist
guitarist
87,569 corpus weight
What this shows “groom” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹuːm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “groom”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around groom (IPA /ɡɹuːm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,430 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A man who is about to marry.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for groom, with forms such as "ggroom", "gorom", and "grom". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grow", "group", "grown", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second… The correct English form is groom, spelled G-R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1A man who is about to marry.
Etymology
1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”). Guma derives from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō; it is cognate to Icelandic gumi (cf. Icelandic brúðgumi) and Norwegian gume and, ultimately, human.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggroom
- gorom
- grom
- gromo
- groomm
- grroom
- rgoom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of groom - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).