ground
/ɡɹaʊnd/
"ground" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ground” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #735
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ground · ground · English
ground · rank #735 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #735
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH giving
Nearest frequency peer: giving (-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 “ground”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- director
director
99,269 corpus weight
- exactly
exactly
99,268 corpus weight
- giving
giving
99,267 corpus weight
- ground
ground
99,266 corpus weight
- meeting
meeting
99,265 corpus weight
- n
n
99,264 corpus weight
What this shows “ground” 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 | ground |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹaʊnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ground”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ground (IPA /ɡɹaʊnd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #735 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 23 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ground, with forms such as "gground", "gorund", and "gronud". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "group", "grown", "grunt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-der. Proto-Germanic *grunduz Old English grund Middle English ground English ground From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with We… The correct English form is ground, spelled G-R-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- 2Terrain.
- 3Soil, earth.
- 4The bottom of a body of water.
- 5Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- 6Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- 7Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- 8The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- 9Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- 10A place suited to a specified activity.
- 11The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- 12A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- 13The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- 14A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- 15One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- 16A soccer stadium.
- 17An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- 18Electric shock.
- 19The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- 20A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- 21The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- 22The pit of a theatre.
- 23Synonym of munny (“land measure”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ground appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-der. Proto-Germanic *grunduz Old English grund Middle English ground English ground From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gground
- gorund
- gronud
- groudn
- groundd
- grounnd
- grround
- gruond
- rgound
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ground - 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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