group
/ɡɹuːp/
"group" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“group” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #241 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #241
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
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 | group |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹuːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “group” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for group is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for group, with forms such as "ggroup", "gorup", and "gropu". 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, "GRU", "grow", "grub", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 … The correct English form is group, spelled G-R-O-U-P.
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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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggroup,gorup,gropu,groupp,grroup,gruop,rgoup
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of group - 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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Using “group”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-O-U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɡɹuːp/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “GRU” - see the side-by-side comparison. group vs GRU
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.