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groover

/ˈɡɹuːvə(ɹ)/noun

groover is spelled G-R-O-O-V-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, groover means “One who grooves, or enjoys rhythmic music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of groover is groovers.

How many letters and syllables are in groover?

Letters7: G-R-O-O-V-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is groover?

Groover appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).

How do you pronounce groover?

  • /ˈɡɹuːvə(ɹ)/

Groover 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). Recordings: En-au-groover.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of groover

  • groovers plural

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

What does groover mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialOne who grooves, or enjoys rhythmic music.

  2. 2

    colloquialA groovy piece of music.

  3. 3

    UKarchaicA miner.

  4. 4

    A device that makes grooves in surfaces.

  5. 5

    USslangA small portable toilet often used on multiday river trips in protected wilderness areas, so named because the original versions were metal boxes whose rims left a groove in the skin of the user.

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

Where does groover come from?

From groove + -er.

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

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