groundworm
"groundworm" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groundworm” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - earthworm
Corpus desk
Index EN-groundworm · groundworm · English
groundworm · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groundworm |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “groundworm” in English
Rare enough to double-check
groundworm is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "earthworm".
No misspelling variants are generated for groundworm in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: ground + worm The correct English form is groundworm, spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-W-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1earthworm
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how groundworm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:
Etymology
ground + worm
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.