grounds

/ɡɹaʊndz/noun, verb

grounds is spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-S: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grounds means “Basis or justification for something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in grounds?

Letters	7: G-R-O-U-N-D-S
Syllables	1
In writing	27 times per million words; the 3,422nd 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 grounds?

Grounds appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce grounds?

/ɡɹaʊndz/
/ɡɹʊndz/

Grounds has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-grounds.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does grounds mean?

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

noun

1
Basis or justification for something.
grounds for divorce
2
The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
the castle grounds
3
The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
coffee grounds
4
plural of ground (a form of ground)

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of ground (a form of ground)

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

Grounds in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	raison, motif (basis or justification for something), marc (sediment at the bottom of a liquid)
German	Grund, Rechtfertigung (basis or justification for something), Satz (sediment at the bottom of a liquid)
Spanish	causal, fundamento (basis or justification for something), concho, poso, hez (sediment at the bottom of a liquid), terreno (area of land)
Portuguese	terreno (area of land)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does grounds come from?

From ground (“basis, surroundings”).