groop
obsolete
groop is spelled G-R-O-O-P: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, groop means “A trench or small ditch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of groop is groops.
How many letters and syllables are in groop?
| Letters | 5: G-R-O-O-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is groop?
Groop appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Forms of groop
- grupe
- groap
- grube
- groops present, singular, he/she/it
- grooping participle, present
- grooped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does groop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
ScotlandUKobsoleteA trench or small ditch.
- 2
ScotlandUKobsoleteA trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
- 3
ScotlandUKobsoleteA pen for cattle; a byre.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does groop come from?
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).