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groundwood

noun

groundwood is spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-W-O-O-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, groundwood means “Wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board; mechanical pulp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of groundwood is groundwoods.

How many letters and syllables are in groundwood?

Letters10: G-R-O-U-N-D-W-O-O-D
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 groundwood?

Groundwood appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 groundwood

  • groundwoods plural

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

What does groundwood mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board; mechanical pulp.

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

Where does groundwood come from?

From ground (“that has been ground”) + wood.

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

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