group
/ɡɹuːp/
"group" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“group” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #241
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
Corpus desk
Index EN-group · group · English
group · rank #241 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #241
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH government
Nearest frequency peer: government (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “group”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- getting
getting
99,763 corpus weight
- god
god
99,762 corpus weight
- government
government
99,761 corpus weight
- group
group
99,760 corpus weight
- looking
looking
99,759 corpus weight
- public
public
99,758 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “group” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around group (IPA /ɡɹuːp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #241 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 15 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how group appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
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.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "group" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "GRU". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #241 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "G" letter cohort. G–Z browse
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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.