group
/ɡɹup/noun, verb
group is spelled G-R-O-U-P. The wrong spelling people search most is gropu: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 139 of all searches for the word. Group is a noun meaning “A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another”. The plural of group is groups.
How many letters and syllables are in group?
| Letters | 5: G-R-O-U-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 372 times per million words; the 242nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gropu, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell group?
Group is spelled G-R-O-U-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 138 of the searches for group in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is group?
Group appears 372 times per million words in written English, the 242nd 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).
How do you pronounce group?
- UK /ɡɹuːp/
- US /ɡɹup/
- /ɡɹʉp/
Group has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-group.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with group?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as group from its last stressed vowel (/up/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of group
- groups plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- groop
- groupe
- grouping participle, present
- grouped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does group mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
- 2
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 3
archaicAn effective divisor on a curve.
- 4
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
- 5
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- 6
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- 7
A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
- 8
A subset of a culture or of a society.
verb
- 1
To put together to form a group.
group the dogs by hair colour
- 2
To come together to form a group.
- 3
To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate group?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of group: Grp., gp, gr, grp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Group in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | groupe , grouper |
| German | Gruppe , gruppieren , Musikgruppe |
| Portuguese | grupo , agrupar , tribo |
| Spanish | grupo, hatajo , agrupar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does group come from?
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).