group
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "group", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "group" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "group" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
group is aEnglishnoun. It means: A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. Pronounced /ɡɹuːp/. It ranks #241 in English word frequency. Often confused with GRU and grow.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | group |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹuːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for group is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡɹuːp/. Corpus data places it at rank #241 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for group, with forms such as "ggroup", "gorup", and "gropu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GRU", "grow", "grub", 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 *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is group, spelled G-R-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- 2A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 3An effective divisor on a curve.
- 4A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- 5A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- 6A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- 7A functional group.
- 8A subset of a culture or of a society.
- 9An air force formation.
- 10A collection of formations or rock strata.
- 11A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- 12An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- 13A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- 14A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- 15A commercial organization.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
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Also misspelled as: ggroup,gorup,gropu,groupp,grroup,gruop,rgoup
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Misspelling Variants of "group"
Frequency rank: #241 in English
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